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for /f... and "delims=" ensures that no delimiters are applied so the output from the command is not altered.

Oh .. that makes sense now, thanks foxidrive. I was reading it 'use default delimiter'. Thanks again, great forum.

Hi foxidrive. Thank you for replying. I admit the penny hasn't really dropped yet .. I had a mishap earlier and hard deleted a lot of stuff by accident. I think I'll practice only on the library computers in future Can you explain why the caret symbol is needed in your first example? Is it the escap...

Hi. This looks like a really good forum. Big hello to everyone. I'm trying to understand the dos for loop. This works .. for /r d:\ %a in (redcar) do rmdir /s /q %a but this doesn't for /r d:\ %a in (*dcar*) do rmdir /s /q %a and this definitely doesn't work for %a in (dir d:\ | find /i /n "dca...