How to use a for loop in a batch file

If you ever had a list of files or directories that you wanted to feed in to a batch file this is how you can do it. It's really simple for any one that has worked with Dos before.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Windows pc

1. Open notepad

2. Copy this text to notepad
   
   FOR /F "tokens=1" %%A IN (C:\bin\todolist.txt) DO (copy %%A "\\backup\folder" )

3. Replace "c:\bin\todolist.txt" with the path to the text file that you want the batch file to read from.

4. Replace "copy" with the command you want to run. \\backup\folder is the destination folder I'm coping to so delete that depending on your command.

5. Save your file as whatever.bat.

Tips & Warnings

• Note the 2 % signs. You need to use two in batch files
• You can add more tokens up to 52