What does the following %1 means (in a .bat file)?
jsmin <%1 >%2
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It represents the first command line argument passed to the batch file.
If you run your batch file with:
%1becomes “firstArg” and%2becomes “secondArg”The related
shiftcommand shifts the position of arguments one to the left. Runningshiftonce in a batch file will make “%1” value to be the second argument, “%2” becomes the third, and so on. It’s useful for processing command line arguments in a loop in the batch file.