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That worked! &nbsp;Why would the /F be the problem? 
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That worked!  Why would the /F be the problem?

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That's used to work on the output from commands one line at a time or to read the contents of a file one line at a time. Each line is referenced using %%a.
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That's used to work on the output from commands one line at a time or to read the contents of a file one line at a time. Each line is referenced using %%a.

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I have a DOS batch file (win2k) that takes one arguement of a set of files, uses that arguement in a FOR /F statement and runs a utility for each of the entries on each of the lines, for each of the files that the FOR /F loop goes through.<br />
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I swear it worked 6 months ago, and now I need to run it again, and it keeps telling me &quot;The system cannot find the file&quot; of the arguement I put into the batch..<br />
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For example, lets say I have some files that end in .txt in a directory, so I run my batch with the *.txt arguement.<br />
Instead of going through each *.txt file in the directory and running the FOR loop, it'll only give me the message &quot;<br />
The system cannot find the file *.txt.<br />
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What could I possibly be doing wrong?<br />
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here's the file...<br />
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echo Called with %1<br />
FOR /F %%a in (%1) do C:\m2o\awk95 -f c:\m2o\sortu.awk &lt;&nbsp;%%a &gt;&nbsp;_%%a<br />
echo &quot;Done!&quot;
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I have a DOS batch file (win2k) that takes one arguement of a set of files, uses that arguement in a FOR /F statement and runs a utility for each of the entries on each of the lines, for each of the files that the FOR /F loop goes through.

I swear it worked 6 months ago, and now I need to run it again, and it keeps telling me "The system cannot find the file" of the arguement I put into the batch..

For example, lets say I have some files that end in .txt in a directory, so I run my batch with the *.txt arguement.
Instead of going through each *.txt file in the directory and running the FOR loop, it'll only give me the message "
The system cannot find the file *.txt.

What could I possibly be doing wrong?

here's the file...

echo Called with %1
FOR /F %%a in (%1) do C:\m2o\awk95 -f c:\m2o\sortu.awk < %%a > _%%a
echo "Done!"

FOR loop can't find fileset.

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