Applying a command to the currently selected file only

[Quisquose]

I am using the following batch file (which was written by somebody else) to perform a file conversion.

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@echo off
mkdir aac
for %%f in (*.m4a) do mp4box -raw 1 "%%f" -out "aac\%%f.aac"

It works fine, except for the fact that it applies the conversion command to ALL files with the .m4a extension in the current folder.

I am running the batch file from a context menu in Windows Explorer. I right-click on the file that I want to convert and select the menu item (that I created) to trigger the batch file. Therefore I only want the batch command to apply to file that I right-clicked on, and not to have the conversion applied to any other files at all.

How can I alter the above batch file so that it only applies to the one file that I right-clicked on, and leaves all the other files alone?

Thanks very much.

[ShadowThief]

I can't speak for running a script via right-click, but if you click and drag the file onto the script, the full path to that file gets passed to the script as %1, so you can just say

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mp4box -raw 1 "%~1" -out "aac\%~n1.aac"

It should work the same way for context menu items, but I'm not positive.

[Squashman]

It should work the same way for context menu items, but I'm not positive.

Yes. It does work that way as well. We do that here where I work.

[Quisquose]

ShadowThief and Squashman, yes this works perfectly from the context menu.

Thank you.