Path inclusion in Dir

[drgt]

Yep, that did the trick.

1. I wonder why you must use the redirection twice. I mean, if you use NO redirection, it all appears on the screen fine. One would think, one redirection would render the screen results into the text file ...

2. Another thing I noticed is that if you move some files with explorer let's say, and you run this again soon after, the number of files does NOT update. You have to re-run it to get the right number. Is this because the system did not refresh fast enough?

Thanks a lot.

[trebor68]

See the following commands:

Here you see every command of set and the result of the command set.

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(set num=0) & (for /l %a in (1,1,10) do set /a num+=%a)

Here you see any result of the command set.

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(set num=0) & (for /l %a in (1,1,10) do @set /a num+=%a)

Here will you not see any result of the command set. What you see is only the last result that save in num.

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(set num=0) & (for /l %a in (1,1,10) do @set /a num+=%a >nul) & (echo %num%)

The result of the command set will not display at the screen with the ">nul".
The result is going to the NULL device (nowhere).