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Blaine P.
Blaine P.

Reputation: 1

How do I save file to current location during FOR recursion

I have a batch script to run ffmpeg on files recursively. Currently the script saves all the new files to a newly created directory named Output. Instead, I would like to save the new files in the same location as the original files. I thought I would use an environmental variable showing the current directory being traversed to during recursion but I can't find it.

SET /P i=Enter the file extension
md output
For /R %%a IN (*.%i%) DO ffmpeg -i "%%a" -c:v libx264 -crf 10 -pix_fmt yuv420p "output/%%~na.mp4"

The script works fine saving the file as the same filename with a new extension but places the file in the new "output" folder. I tried setting a new variable with %cd% within the FOR loop but that didn't work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 80213

... "%%~dpna.mp4"

should do this.

Note that in the Windows world, \ is a directory-separator and / is a switch-indicator. Windows often, but not always, makes the translation. Best to use the correct form.

Metavariable modifiers are documented under for /? from the prompt. They are d for drive, p for path, n for name and x for extension. z will give you size, s shortname, t datestamp, a attribute and f will yield the fully-qualified filename within limits). Note that the path resulting wil contain both leading and trailing \ but not \\.

Upvotes: 1

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