.bat syntax question

[cdeardor]

Hello, I'm trying to write a .bat file that will copy a file to several directories based off of a file called commands.txt. On unix, I would just do this using a for loop. I'm new to .bat scripting and it seems to me that you can only pass one command at a time to the for command. Is this true? Is there an easier way to do this? Here's a syntax example of what I would like to do. Notice there are 3 commands at the end. Only the 1st gets executed.

FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3* delims=/ " %%i in (dirlist.txt) do echo cd %%i\%%j\%%k >> commands.txt echo cp %filename% >> commands.txt echo "file copied" >> commands.txt

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[aftertaf]

http://www.ss64.com/

check out their DOS link...
quite informative

Aftertaf

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[cdeardor]

I found the answer. I didn't really see it on the link you sent me, but thanks for that. You're right, that's a very informative site. The solution was basically to seperate your commands by and &. So, to do what I was trying, the command would look like this..

FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3* delims=/ " %%i in (dirlist.txt) do echo cd %%i\%%j\%%k >> commands.txt&echo cp %filename% >> commands.txt&echo "file copied" >> commands.txt

Thanks for your help!