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Yeah, thanks, got it all working.
My friends will kill me after opening this.

You would extract the files and folders and then run the bat file, right? Yes, but if possible, no. That's what I thought - you cannot execute a batch file and have it use related files from an archive. You'd need to unzip the archive with folders, and then in the batch file you would use relative ...

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for /r "%~dp0" %%i in (*.html) do echo %%~fi

Could you explain this please? Do I just replace the star with the file name?

foxidrive wrote:You would extract the files and folders and then run the bat file, right?

Yes, but if possible, no.

Well now, that works well, but how I do make it read from subfolders?
The bat is in a .zip file, with a folder with the html files etc.

The path (including the trailing backslash) where the script is located can be found in %~dp0. This parameter can be used if you append the file names or pathes located relative to your script. Say there is a test.html in the same directory, see what echo "%~dp0test.html" outputs. Regards...

I've been doing this batch file since yesterday, and I'd like some help on this one; If my friend downloads the .zip, extracts it somewhere and runs the .bat that opens a html file, how can the bat locate it? On my own computer it is: C:\Users\käyttäjä1\Desktop\Download , but ofcourse the other guy ...