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Hello, I'm pretty new at this coding language, but I think I've got a bit experience

My problem is: I do not understand ANYTHING of the "FOR" command, is it possible for you to explain me how that "function" works? I see it's very usefull xD

I found this very useful:
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/for.html

It helps to think:
FOR every TOKEN in (list, file, whatever) DO (something involving the token)

That's the basic format. The delims=, tokens= and so on basically let you get the right token to do things to - worry about that later.

Good post Greenfinch. I am glad that you are onboard.

Thanks for your reply

So, if I want to make a command to:

... make the same file twice, at two different locations:
FOR %a IN (%USERPROFILE%\desktop %USERPROFILE%\documents) DO echo start %CD% >> %a

... count to 20
FOR %a IN (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20) DO echo %a
hmm.. I would normally do something like:
:loop
IF /I %a% GEQ 20 (goto end)
echo %a%
set /a a=%a%+1
goto loop

... to make 2 word "listings" (This is a wild guess
)
FOR %a IN (greetings, %yourname%, ., Please type your something) DO echo %a


okay... can you guys please correct me if I'm wrong?

EDIT: forgot to bold half of one of the command lines xD

Just about right, yes!

In the first example, you need to specify a filename to output to within %a, e.g.



Your final example is more fiddly:


Here the /f switch enables use of the delims and tokens, you state that the delimiter is , and there are 3 tokens

Quotes are added to ("set") because (set) refers to a file, rather than a string

&& means "if the last command went OK, do this"

There might be a simpler way of doing this - still learning myself!

Ok thanks again

The last was just to test your knownledge

and I see the problem in line 1, it might be one of the "random-error" I do :p