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May 10, 2005

Manipulating Command-Line Parameters


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One of the most common command-line parameters for a script is either a filename or directory path. As I was looking through the For command's Help file, I noticed that I could manipulate the variables within the loop by using modifiers between the percent sign and the variable name (e.g., using %~I to remove surrounding quotes for the value stored in %I). I tried the same modifiers on regular . . .

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