Commands by jmcclosk (1)

  • For Loop in DOS Batch File

    You can implement a FOR loop to act on one or more files returned from the IN clause. We originally found this in order to GPG decrypt a file using wildcards (where you don't know exactly the entire file name, i.e.: Test_File_??????.txt, where ?????? = the current time in HHMMSS format). Since we won't know the time the file was generated, we need to use wildcards. And as a result of GPG not handling wildcards, this is the perfect solution. Thought I would share this revelation. :-) Show Sample Output


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    FOR %%c in (C:\Windows\*.*) DO (echo file %%c)
    jmcclosk · 2013-01-31 15:19:54 11

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