cavalierlan
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Batch File If Statement in For Loop
My goal is to do a dir of a folder to create a txt list of the files. I then want to add text to the end of the file name based on its file extension. I want to do this with a batch file and I think i need to have an if statement in my for loop
Here's where I have gone so far.
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dir c:\folder1>text.txt
setlocal
set msifile=--is a msi file
set exefile=--is a exe file
for /f "delims=" %%a in (text.txt) do (
if %%a=*.exe echo %%a%exefile% else echo %%a%msifile
)
Here's where I have gone so far.
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dir c:\folder1>text.txt
setlocal
set msifile=--is a msi file
set exefile=--is a exe file
for /f "delims=" %%a in (text.txt) do (
if %%a=*.exe echo %%a%exefile% else echo %%a%msifile
)
ASKER
Thanks for the reply,
my for loop looks like below but it doesn't run. the cmd window flashes and goes away before it gets to the pause. I tried it echoing to screen and to output.txt, i get nothing.
is the if %%~xa statement correct?
for /f "delims=" %%a in (text.txt) do (
if %%~xa=.exe echo %%a%exetext%>>output.txt else echo %%a%exetext%>>output.txt
)
Pause
my for loop looks like below but it doesn't run. the cmd window flashes and goes away before it gets to the pause. I tried it echoing to screen and to output.txt, i get nothing.
is the if %%~xa statement correct?
for /f "delims=" %%a in (text.txt) do (
if %%~xa=.exe echo %%a%exetext%>>output.txt else echo %%a%exetext%>>output.txt
)
Pause
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ASKER
Perfect! Works great
dir c:\folder1>text.txt
setlocal
set msifile=--is a msi file
set exefile=--is a exe file
for /f "delims=" %%a in (text.txt) do (
if %%~xa=.exe echo %%a%exefile% else echo %%a%msifile
)