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Posted: **04 Feb 2009 22:36**

Hello all DOS fan!

i am sorry if this same problems had been asked before, but i could not find the answer.

i want to list the attributed file with

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attrib /s >> file.txt

and this files need to be first renamed and then copied to another backup folder. for this i use the FOR command.

apparently some of the folder and file names have spaces and i only knew that FOR can only takes up to 3 variable.

for example if one of the list is

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A      D:\Computer\DOS\problems with\spaces for \vari able\2090811.txt

and the variables for the FOR command can only read up until "with\spaces".

are there any solution to this.? :?:

Posted: **05 Feb 2009 09:25**

This should get you started. It's similar to my issue in another thread:

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 SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
 SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

 Attrib /s > Attrib.List
 
 For /F "Delims=" %%F In (Attrib.List) DO (

     Set "f=%%~nxF"
     Set "p=%%~pF"

     CD /D "!p!"
     Copy !f! "\BackupFolder\<NewName Goes Here>"     

 )

Remember that the ">" creates a new file and ">>" appends to an existing file. Based on your example, if you're calling this script multiple times it will keep adding to the file every time you run the "Attrib /s >> File.txt" command.

HTH
-R

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