Extract File Name from Folder

[codelady]

Please Help!  I am trying to find a way to extract a file name from a directory of files.  For example, if you have a folder named "C:\scanadm\file\in" that contains files
12343567.txt
7654321.txt

and you want to extract the name of each file in a for loop and store it in a variable:

FOR /R C:\scanadm\file\in %A IN (*.*) DO (Get Individual Name of File and Put in Variable)

How do you do this?  I have been all over the internet, and cannot find this anywhere - It can't be that hard!!

[diablo416]

set un1=0
for /f "tokens=1* delims=" %%a in (' ') do (
call set /a un1=%%un1%%+1
call set D.%%un1%%=%%a
)

variables would be %D.1% %D.2% ect

[Sidewinder]

FOR /R C:\scanadm\file\in %A IN (*.*) DO (Get Individual Name of File and Put in Variable)

Not sure what the problem is. You have a variable (%A) which will contain the fully qualified file name.

If you don't want the path info, you can use:

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FOR /R C:\scanadm\file\in %A IN (*.*) DO (echo %~nxA)

Don't recommend using %~nxA; the /R switch walks the directory structure (recursion) and you may want to keep file names unique.