75 I received a line of code from someone who answered one of my questions, but I am confused: what do the "&&" do in this batch file.

It's the same as 'if "%1" == "" goto somewhere', except that will fail in batch files, because "" evaluates to nothing and the whole sentence reduces to 'if %1 == goto somewhere'. I prefer X, …

Addendum - This is a duplicate question with nearly identical answers to Using an OR in an IF statement WinXP Batch Script Final addendum - I almost forgot my favorite technique to test if …

Jul 16, 2020 · The tilde (~) sign is used in different ways in batch files: Argument quote removal. A tilde sign before an command-line argument (such as "%~1") indicates to remove the …

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1 It's a variable. That particular example uses the directory option of a FOR loop, iterating through the directories and assigning them to %%A. That's also not a command-line example, but a …

Apr 14, 2022 · The batch size should pretty much be as large as possible without exceeding memory. The only other reason to limit batch size is that if you concurrently fetch the next …

Using parameters in batch files: %0 and %9 Batch files can refer to the words passed in as parameters with the tokens: %0 to %9. %0 is the program name as it was called. %1 is the …

Jun 12, 2013 · System read-only variable %CD% keeps the path of the caller of the batch, not the batch file location. You can get the name of the batch script itself as typed by the user with %0 …

Can I declare a list or array in a batch file like this: set list = "A B C D" And then I need to write these to a file, with the spaces between: A B C D