Commodore PC Ms-Dos 3.2 User's Manual page 182

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Purpose: ik^J
Performs a command for a set of files.
Syntax: (vs_J
for %%c in set do command
(for batch processing)
for %c in set do command ^^
(for interactive processing)
Comments: K^J
To avoid confusion with the %0 — %9 batch parameters, the vari
able c can be any character except 0,1,2,3, .,9. »
set is ( item* )
This command sequentially sets the % % c variable to each ^-^
member of set, and uses the variable to evaluate command. If a
member of set is an expression involving a wildcard (* or ?), then
the variable is set to each matching item from the disk. In this \-J
case, only one such item is in set, so the command ignores any
item other than the first.
Examples:
The following example binds the variable %f to files ending with
*.asm in the working directory. [^_J
for %%f in ( *.asm ) do masm %%f
It then executes a command of the following form: ^"""^
masm filename
Filename could be any one of the following:
invoice.asm ^—^
receipts.asm
taxes.asm
The following example binds the variable %f to the files named
report, memo, and address-, it then deletes each of these files:
for %%f in (report memo address) do del %%f ^-"^
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