Question

I want to do some processing on each line of a file.

for /f "delims=" %%i in ("%RF_PROPERTIES%") do (          
   echo %%i
)

My RF_PROPERTIES points to a file path with spaces (c:\program files\Arcot systems\conf\rf.properties). It is complaining saying Environment variable C:\Program Files\Arcot not defined, even though I have provided quotes. How to get it working?

Answer 1

Try adding the usebackq option:

for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in ("%RF_PROPERTIES%") do (          
  echo %%i
)

Explanation from the output of for /?:

usebackq – specifies that the
new semantics are in force,
where a back quoted string is executed as a
command and a single quoted string is a
literal string command and allows the use of
double quotes to quote file names in
file-set.