Windows batch file: choosing a file from a directory based on directory name

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Published on 2010-04-28T18:48:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 22:17 UTC
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I don't do windows batch programming, nor do I need to go that far down the rabbit hole.

I have directory structures as such:

dir1000000/file.txt
dir2000000_1/file.txt
dir2000000_2/file.txt

I need to select the file.txt from the path with the lexicographically greatest value, i.e. dir2000000_2/file.txt. How do I go about doing this?

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