Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference

Name

for

Synopsis

Loop construct.

for [/D] %var% in (filelist) do command

Loop over a list of files. The specified variable is set to each successive item in the file list each time it goes through the loop.

/D says to match directory names in filelist only.

for /L %var% in (m,j,n) do command

Loop from m to n by j, using the specified variable as the loop index.