Question

What I need to do is (and I have some idea, just can’t get this solidified):

• Read all files in a directory (for loop)
• In loop, I need to copy the current file in the loop’s contents into a new file (x.txt into x2.txt) in the same directory. This can be done with a type >> command.

I’m more confused about the looping part of it. How do I do that?

Edit:

This is my current script:

FOR %%i IN (*)
Do type %%i >> %%i2

Answer 1

This will copy each .txt file to a backup file with extension .txt2:

for %i in (*.txt) do type "%i" > "%i2"

Note that in a batch file you need to double the %:

for %%i in (*.txt) do type "%%i" > "%%i2"

It’s not clear from your question if you want all found files dumped into the same resulting text file or if you want one-to-one copies of each.

If you just want one results file, you could also use a variant of the copy command, i.e.:

copy *.txt output.dat