Windows batch file - how to loop through files in a directory?

Question

I have this batch:

for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.pdf') do call convert.exe %%a

This gets every pdf file thats in the same folder as convert.exe. I want to be able to say where the PDF resides. What do I have to change?

Thanks!

Sergey Kudriavtsev · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-12T14:14:32.943

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If the directory name can be hardcoded, then it will be

for /f %%a IN ('dir /b /s "Disk:\Your\Directory\Name\*.pdf"') do call convert.exe %%a

Note that this will also return all .pdf files in subdirectories of Disk:\Your\Directory\Name.

edited Jan 12 '12 at 14:14

answered Jan 12 '12 at 14:08

I think /b is wrong, I need the full path ... right now, I only get the filename, not the full path. And thus the param for convert.exe is only a file, without path. – EOB Jan 12 '12 at 14:12
@EOB: If you need to get full paths then you need to add /s, but leave /b. Modified my answer accordingly. /b suppresses `dir` headers in output - you definitely don't want them for batch processing. – Sergey Kudriavtsev Jan 12 '12 at 14:17
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Notice: For in () do requires '(' and ')' in Windows 7 command line – Jackie Feb 12 '14 at 01:54

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