multipule lines as a var

[dakota]

when i do this line and i echo the %%a it show all of the itomes but when it is set to a var it only does the first line

this is the line

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for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('dir /AD ^| findstr /R /V "\.\>" ^| find /c "<DIR>"') do set dirs=%%a
echo %dirs%
pause
for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do echo %%a

echo %list%


[dakota]

any help :-? :-? :-? :-?

[dakota]

please help

[ghostdog74]

when you do the set var = %%a , you should do something with it.

[dakota]

what do you mean i  set the list to a var and when i echo it it only gets the first line so my line looks like this

for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do echo %%a & set list=%%a

[dakota]

and i use the list var latter

[uli_glueck]

You have to use a sub - procedure.

for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do call :sub %%a

set dirs=
goto :eof
:sub %%a

set  dirs=%1
pause
for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do echo %%a

echo %list%

hope it helps
uli

[dakota]

ok think you but i still cant get it to work here is all of my code:

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@echo off
:start
::================================================
set fup=fup
set pur=purge
set alt=altpr
set sec=secure
set cod=,code 100
set ccc=,"cccc"
set Infile=temp.dak
set Outfile=purge.jim
::================================================
for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('dir /AD ^| findstr /R /V "\.\>" ^| find /c "<DIR>"') do set dirs=%%a
echo %dirs%
pause
::for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do echo %fup% %pur% %%a >testttt.txt& set list=%%a

for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do call :sub %%a
set dirs=
goto :eof
:sub %%a
set  dirs=%1
for /f "skip=%dirs%" %%a in ('dir /b /o:g') do echo %%a  
echo %list%

pause
::for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%list%") do echo %fup% %pur% %%a>>%Outfile%
::echo.>>%Outfile%
::for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%list%") do echo %fup% %alt% %%a %cod%>>%Outfile%
::echo.>>%Outfile%
::for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%list%") do echo %fup% %sec% %%a %ccc%>>%Outfile%
::echo.>>%Outfile%
::pause


[dakota]

anyone

[GuruGary]

What are you trying to accomplish?  Let me know and I will be glad to help.

[dakota]

I am trying to get a list of all the files in a directory and output them to a file but I want this list to be in the bare formate and have no folders included in it just the files. Think you

[ghostdog74]

@echo off

for /F %%i in ('dir /A-D /S /B') do (
      echo %%~ni >> output.txt
)

[uli_glueck]

So you don`t need to set it in a variable.
Ghostdogs solution seems perfect. :-)

[dakota]

nope that dose not work i need it not to display directorys but all of the files and i would like to have it in a var because i will use the var later when i am adding things to it the it will go to the output file.

[Sidewinder]

After reading this post, I'm guessing you want one variable to hold all the file names as if it were a collection. You can accomplish this by concatenating the files/dir names out of the FOR:

call set list=%list%%%a

Unfortunately, the result will be one long string. Unless you're running MS-DOS as your operating system and have access to the ANSI.SYS driver, there is no way to insert CRLF (carriage return/linefeed) characters between the file names in batch language.

Try using one of the Windows scripting languages where you have access to functions to represent the CRLF characters.

 8-)