%%A was unexpected at this time
WindowsCommand LineWindows Problem Overview
I want to zip a folder containing files. So inorder to do that i need to loop through the entire file list and execute 7za command. (7zip command line version)
for /f %%A in ('"G:\Files Sample\zip\txt\*.t
xt"') do 7za -tzip "%%A.zip" "%%A"
However windows says that this command is not valid.
Error message is
%%A was unexpected at this time
How do i overcome this issue ?
Windows Solutions
Solution 1 - Windows
%%A
is used when you use a batch program (*.bat)
try remove one '%'
Solution 2 - Windows
If you are doing it from the command line, you don't have to escape the %, so %a
is sufficient. You only need to use %%a
from batch files.
Also, you wanna be selecting the files instead of executing "G:\Files Sample\zip\txt\.txt" as a command, which is what the /f
switch does in combination with single quotes. The full command would be: for %A in ("G:\Files Sample\zip\txt\
.txt") do 7za -tzip "%A.zip" "%A"
Solution 3 - Windows
Try this in a batch file.
FOR "G:\Files Sample\zip\txt\" %%G IN (*.txt) DO 7za -tzip "%%G.zip" "%%G"
Add /R
as option to search for the files in all subfolder.
A good explanation of cmd- methods you could find at ss64