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PS: Question about the "dir /a:-d" use.
Why the "/a:-d" and not just "/a-d" ?
Is "/a:-d" a alternative way for writing "/a /a-d" ?

Roger. Will move the Dir out of the For command just to be on the save side. The !,& and % limitation is most likely not going to be a problem in this case. But its good to now. Added it below the :: *** Courtesy of m *** line. One minor thing (which was not specified in OP) that I run into was ...

Could not get the code from Aacini adjusted to get it working for me ... before the second code from foxidrive was posted.
(Did not spend that much time on Aacini's code as it was about bed time for me when I got it.)

foxidrive's code: 6sec on 4000 files. That I can use.

Thank you, to both.

Hi. Back again after a serious lack of DOS practice. Trying to do something in DOS that probably can be done way simpler (in DOS) than what I'm doing now/here. The Target is to get a "Dir /b/s ... > file.log" output file that has some leading part of the paths removed. Which part of the pa...

The suggested new versions lose significant functionality compared to the original. They don't expand wildcards, nor do they normalize the path into a fully qualified path. They only make sure it doesn't end in \. Correct. Fixed missing 'f'. 1) Send the missing argument error messages to stderr ins...

Yes it did. "Call set ..." was someting that I ever seen or used before. But it also made clear why my attempts failed (after some more experimenting of course). Relative new to using ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION ... which I forgot about in my attempts. Ergo: :NormalizeFilespec2 - <var:Input/Out...

Hi First post ... So big thanks to DosTips site for being there. Live saver when is comes to win/cmd/dos scripting. Wondering about something. Is it possible to use a single var-name for both data-input and -output ? I did see its possible when you use [set /A ..], but that's for numbers. But for st...