Subj : Re: Merging files...
To   : Steve
From : Martin Whittaker
Date : Wed Dec 05 2001 06:12 pm

From: "Martin Whittaker" <mwhittaker@kc.rr.com>


Oh right...DUH!

I guess I slept through that one...sorry.

The correct FOR(s) are good, simple solutions.

Thanks

"E. S. (Steve) Fabian" <ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net> wrote in message 
news:3C0E1318.C188E214@BellAtlantic.net...
> Martin Whittaker wrote:
> >
> > what's wrong with:
> >
> > for %%e in ( 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 ) do copy/b file%%e.txt
bigfile.txt
>
> Minor syntax problem: it overwrites the target multiple times
>
> for %e in ( 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 ) copy/b
> bigfile.txt+file%e.txt
>
> would operate correctly.
>
> You could use
>
> FOR /L %N IN ( 1 , 1 , 10 ) copy/b bigfile.txt+file%@format[-02,%e].txt
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