Posted By

maphew on 04/17/09

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I'm always forgetting the syntax for this, and finding it is hard because the key words apply to so many different uses that aren't this one

@echo off
for %%f in (foobar.exe) do (
   if exist "%%~dp$PATH:f" echo %%f located at "%%~dp$PATH:f"
   )

Posted By: Vordreller on April 17, 2009

Sorry dude, syntax is wrong, copied it, made it one line, replaced foobar.exe with notepad.exe, entered it, got an error message:

%%f was unexpected at this time.

Posted By: maphew on April 21, 2009

use double percent (%%f) when in batch file, single (%f) when a command line. So for command line use it would be:

for %f in (notepad.exe) do if exist "%~dp$PATH:f" echo %f located at "%~dp$PATH:f"

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