Question

My batch file is throwing error when run, but when I run the commands one by one manually in command line then I get no error. Here’s the batch file ‘test.bat’.

echo "test"
cd "c:\packages"
pause
for /R c:\packages %F in (*.msi) do set /A servername=%~nxF
pause
echo %servername%
pause

I get this error – “~nxF was unexpcted at this time”.

I got the sample code from https://stackoverflow.com/a/1100466/1105556
I’m just trying the get the file name in c:\packages & store the value in ‘servername’ variable. There is only one file (.msi) in the folder
I cant figure out whats wrong. Can someone please solve the riddle for me?

Answer 1

You need to double the %% in batch files:

for /R c:\packages %%F in (*.msi) do set /A servername=%%~nxF