This should be a piece of cake for you folks, I'm trying to use "FOR" to decompile a bunch of files using a 3rd party decompiler. What I'm using works, but the filename of the output isn't coming out like I want it to, here's my command:

for %f in (*.agn) do agn2txt.exe %f > %f.txt

My files are all named like "001222031313031an.agn", "001222031313033an.agn", etc (autogen files for MS FLIGHT Simulator). I'd like the output .txt files to be named similarly, i.e. "001222031313031an.txt", "001222031313033an.txt", but instead I'm GETTING "001222031313031an.agn.txt", "001222031313033an.agn.txt"

I'm guessing it's blissfully simple, but how do I make it not include the ".agn" in the filename of the .txt file? I thought "%f" was a variable for the wildcard "*", but apparently it's everything within the parentheses? Do I need "delims"?

I'd appreciate any help someone can give me.

Thanks,
JimUse this:

CODE: [Select]> %~nf.txt
Help info on the modifiers is on the last page of for /?Cool, thanks foxidrive, much appreciated .

"%~nI - expands %I to a file name only"

I guess in this case it's %~nf just because I used %f rather than %I as my variable?

Thanks,
JimQuote from: JRobinson on June 22, 2013, 02:46:52 AM

I guess in this case it's %~nf just because I used %f rather than %I as my variable?

I guess in this case it's %~nf just because I used %f rather than %I as my variable?

In the examples in the FOR documentation, the character I (upper case i) is used as a placeholder for whatever letter you choose to use.

I learned in programming never to use an i I l 1 or o 0 O as a variable name because in in some fonts you can't tell which is which.

That's surprising.

I hate when people use things like %%# and especially %%? to confuse the newbies with wildcards.