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Amil
Amil

Reputation: 503

What's wrong with my .bat script?

So, I am trying to write a script that uses 7-zip to extract a .zip file containing another .zip file into the current directory and delete it.

Everything works fine when I type it into the command prompt:

set 7ZIP="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zG.exe"
for %X in (*.zip) do start "Extracting..." /WAIT %7ZIP% x "%X" && del "%X"

However, when I try to do this in a .bat file (note the %%), I get a strange error

set 7ZIP="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zG.exe"
for %%X in (*.zip) do start "Extracting..." /WAIT %7ZIP% x "%%X" && del "%%X"

Failed

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 471

Answers (1)

Amil
Amil

Reputation: 503

Okay, I just learned that you apparently can't have variables starting with numbers in .bat scripts (or the start command??), because this works:

set ZIP7="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zG.exe"
for %%X in (*.zip) do start "Extracting..." /WAIT %ZIP7% x "%%X" && del "%%X"

Upvotes: 4

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