hi ..

i'm not sure this is possible under dos but i have a text file which is being generated, the TXT files numbers of lines will change depending on the system ..

file example
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C:\path\server1.file
c:\path\server2.file

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what i'd like to do is pass each line in turn to another cli .. eg

command c:\path\server1.file

then run

command c:\path\server2.file

the only way i could think to do this was to TRY and pass each line to a variable using FOR. and the on the cli and could use command %a, command %b ....

any thoughts ?

The FOR command will do you quite nicely:

@echo off
for /f %%a in ('dir /b *.file') do command %%a

Feel free to adjust the code snippet to your situation.

Hope this helps.

perfect .. i've just had the BLINDINGLY obvious POINTED out to me on a public forum .. .. sometimes you can stare at something so long ..

i actually needed a couple of mods as there are spaces so i ended up with

for /f "tokens=1 delims=," %a in ('file.txt) do command %a

thanks for your help