Get list of passed arguments in Windows batch script bat

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I d like to find a Windows batch counterpart to Bash s    that holds a list of all arguments passed into a script    Or I have to bother with shift

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1      n and    holds the arguments  but it can be tricky to access them  because the content will be interpreted  Therefore it is impossible to handle something like this with normal statements  myBatch bat   amp    amp    Each line fails  as cmd exe try to execute one of the ampersands  the content of  1 is   amp   amp    set var  1 set  var  1  set var   1 set  var   1    But there exists a workaround with a temporary file   echo off SETLOCAL DisableDelayedExpansion  SETLOCAL for   a in  1  do       set  prompt         echo on     for   b in  1  do rem     1       echo off    gt  param txt ENDLOCAL  for  F  delims     L in  param txt  do     set  param1   L    SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion set  param1  param1       set  param1  param1  0 -2   echo   1 is   param1     The trick is to enable echo on and expand the  1 after a rem statement  works also with  2         But to be able to redirect the output of echo on  you need the two FOR-LOOPS     The extra characters     are used to be safe against contents like     would show the help for REM   Or a caret   at the line end could work as a multiline character     The FOR  F should be work with delayed expansion off  else contents with     would be destroyed  After removing the extra characters in param1 and you got it     And to use param1 in a safe way  enable the delayed expansion   Edit  One remark to  0   0 contains the command used to call the batch  also preserving the case like in FoO BaT But after a call to a function  0 and also in   0 contains the function name  or better the string that was used to call the function   But with   f0 you still can recall the filename    echo off echo main  0    0    f0 call  myLabel xyz exit  b   MYlabel echo func  0    0    f0 exit  b   Output  main test bat  test bat  C  temp test bat func  myLabel xyz   myLabel xyz  C  temp test bat

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Sometimes I need to extract several command line parameters  but not all of them and not from the first one  Let s assume the following call   Test bat uno dos tres cuatro cinco seis siete   Of course  the extension   bat  is not needed at least you have test exe in same folder  What we want is to get the output  tres cuatro cinco   no matter if one line or three   The goal is that only I need three parameters and starting in the third one  In order to have a simple example the action for each one is just  echo   but you can think in some other more complex action over the selected parameters   I ve produced some examples   options  in order you can see which one you consider better for you  Unfortunately  there is not a nice  or I don t know about  way based on a for loop over the range like  for   i in   3  1   5       echo off  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  echo Option 1  one by one  same line  echo  3   4   5 echo   echo Option 2  Loop For one by one for   a in   3   4   5  do echo   a echo   echo Option 3  Loop For with check of limits set i 0 for   a in      do       set  A i i 1     If  i  GTR 2 if  i  LSS 6 echo   a   echo   echo Option 4  Loop For with auxiliary list for  l   i in  3 1 5  do        set a   i     set b echo        set b  b  a      call  b    echo   echo Option 5  Assigning to an array of elements previously set e 0   0 set i 0  for   a in      do       set  A i i 1     set e  i     a   for   l   i in  3 1 5  do       echo  e   i     echo   echo Option 6  using shift and goto loop  It doesn t work with for loop set i 2  loop6     set  A i i 1     echo  3     shift     If  i  LSS 5 goto  loop6   Probably you can find more options or combine several ones  Enjoy them

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If you have parameters in quotes that containing spaces     will not work correctly  The best solution I found is to have a loop that joins all arguments  https   serverfault com a 22541  set args  1 shift  start if   1        goto done set args  args   1 shift goto start   done  use  args  here

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Lot of the information above led me to further research and ultimately my answer so I wanted to contribute what I wound up doing in hopes it helps someone else    I also wanted to pass a varied number of variables to a batch file so that they could be processed within the file  I was ok with passing them to the batch file using quotes I would want them processed similar to the below - but using a loop instead of writing out manually    So I wanted to execute this   prog ZipDeleteFiles bat   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP    appFile PCAP       And via the magic of for loops do this within the batch file   set   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP  set   appFile PCAP       Problem I was having is that all my attempts to use a for loop weren t working   The below example   for  f  tokens  delims    in   A      DO      set   A     would just do   set   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP    and not   set   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP  set   appFile PCAP       even after setting   SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion   Reason was that the for loop read the whole line and assigned my second parameter to   B during the first iteration of the loop   Because    represents all arguments  there is only a single line to process - ergo only one pass of the for loop happens   This is by design it turns out  and my logic was wrong   So I stopped trying to use a for loop and simplified what I was trying to do by using if  shift  and a goto statement   Agreed its a bit of a hack but it s more suited to my needs  I can loop through all of the arguments and then use an if statement to drop out of the loop once I process them all   The winning statement for what I was trying to accomplish   echo on  processArguments    Process all arguments in the order received if defined  1 then       set  1     shift     goto processArguments   ELSE       echo off      UPDATE - I had to modify to the below instead  I was exposing all of the environment variables when trying to reference  1 and using shift in this manner   echo on shift  processArguments    Process all arguments in the order received if defined  0 then       set  0     shift     goto processArguments   ELSE       echo off

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seems to hold all of the arguments passed to the script

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The way to retrieve all the args to a script is here    ECHO off ECHO The   nx0 script args are    for   I IN      DO ECHO   I pause

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You can use For Commad to get list of Arg   Help   For    Help   Setlocal     Here is my way     echo off   For Run Use This   cmd  c   Args cmd  Hello USER Scientist etc  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set  a Count 0 for   I IN      DO    Echo Arg  Count      I  set  a Count  1    Echo Count Of Args    Count  Endlocal   Do not need Shift command

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echo off  start     Insert your code here echo   1 is now   1    End insert your code here  if    2  NEQ          shift     goto  start

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Here is a fairly simple way to get the args and set them as env vars  In this example I will just refer to them as Keys and Values   Save the following code example as  args bat   Then call the batch file you saved from a command line  example  arg bat --x 90 --y 120  I have provided some echo commands to step you through the process  But the end result is that --x will have a value of 90 and --y will have a value of 120 that is if you run the example as specified above  -      You can then use the  if defined  conditional statement to determine whether or not to run your code block  So lets say run       arg bat --x hello-world   I could then use the statement  IF DEFINED --x echo  --x   and the results would be  hello-world   It should make more sense if you run the batch    setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion  ECHO off ECHO  ECHO                            arg bat example                                 ECHO    By       User2631477  2013-07-29                                      ECHO    Version  1 0                                                            ECHO    Purpose  Checks the args passed to the batch                            ECHO                                                                            ECHO    Start by gathering all the args with the     in a for loop              ECHO                                                                            ECHO    Now we use a  for  loop to search for our keys which are identified     ECHO    by the text  --   The function then sets the --arg    to the next       ECHO    arg   CALL Function GetValue    lt search for --  gt    lt each arg  gt             ECHO                                                                            ECHO                                                                             ECHO   ECHO                                                                            ECHO    From the command line you could pass    arg bat --x 90 --y 220          ECHO                                                                            ECHO  ECHO Checking Args       FOR   a IN      do       CALL Function GetValue  --     a      ECHO  ECHO                                                                            ECHO    Now lets check which args were set to variables                         ECHO                                                                            ECHO  ECHO                                                                            ECHO    For this we are using the CALL Function Show Defined  --x --y --z       ECHO                                                                            ECHO  CALL Function Show Defined  --x --y --z  endlocal goto done   Function GetValue  REM First we use find string to locate and search for the text  echo   2   findstr  C    1  1 gt nul  REM Next we check the errorlevel return to see if it contains a key or a value REM and set the appropriate action   if not errorlevel 1     SET KEY   2   ELSE     SET VALUE   2   IF DEFINED VALUE       SET  KEY    2     ECHO      ECHO                             0                                    ECHO    The KEY   KEY   is now set to the VALUE   VALUE                              ECHO                                                                                 ECHO      ECHO  KEY    2     ECHO      REM It s important to clear the definitions for the key and value in order to     REM search for the next key value set      SET KEY      SET VALUE    GOTO EOF   Function Show Defined  ECHO  ECHO                       0                                  ECHO    Checks which args were defined i e    2 ECHO                                                                             ECHO  SET ARGS   1 for   s in   ARGS   DO       ECHO      ECHO                                                                                 ECHO    For the ARG     s                               IF DEFINED   s           ECHO    Defined as     s    s                                                      else           ECHO    Not Defined    s  and thus has no value            ECHO                                                                                 ECHO    goto EOF   done

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echo off  start     Insert your code here echo   1 is now   1    End insert your code here  if    2  NEQ          shift     goto  start

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1      n and    holds the arguments  but it can be tricky to access them  because the content will be interpreted  Therefore it is impossible to handle something like this with normal statements  myBatch bat   amp    amp    Each line fails  as cmd exe try to execute one of the ampersands  the content of  1 is   amp   amp    set var  1 set  var  1  set var   1 set  var   1    But there exists a workaround with a temporary file   echo off SETLOCAL DisableDelayedExpansion  SETLOCAL for   a in  1  do       set  prompt         echo on     for   b in  1  do rem     1       echo off    gt  param txt ENDLOCAL  for  F  delims     L in  param txt  do     set  param1   L    SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion set  param1  param1       set  param1  param1  0 -2   echo   1 is   param1     The trick is to enable echo on and expand the  1 after a rem statement  works also with  2         But to be able to redirect the output of echo on  you need the two FOR-LOOPS     The extra characters     are used to be safe against contents like     would show the help for REM   Or a caret   at the line end could work as a multiline character     The FOR  F should be work with delayed expansion off  else contents with     would be destroyed  After removing the extra characters in param1 and you got it     And to use param1 in a safe way  enable the delayed expansion   Edit  One remark to  0   0 contains the command used to call the batch  also preserving the case like in FoO BaT But after a call to a function  0 and also in   0 contains the function name  or better the string that was used to call the function   But with   f0 you still can recall the filename    echo off echo main  0    0    f0 call  myLabel xyz exit  b   MYlabel echo func  0    0    f0 exit  b   Output  main test bat  test bat  C  temp test bat func  myLabel xyz   myLabel xyz  C  temp test bat

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dancavallaro has it right     for all command line parameters  excluding the script name itself   You might also find these useful    0 - the command used to call the batch file  could be foo     foo  c  bats foo bat  etc    1 is the first command line parameter   2 is the second command line parameter  and so on till  9  and SHIFT can be used for those after the 9th       nx0 - the actual name of the batch file  regardless of calling method  some-batch bat    dp0 - drive and path to the script   d  scripts    dpnx0 - is the fully qualified path name of the script  d  scripts some-batch bat     More info examples at https   www ss64 com nt syntax-args html and https   www robvanderwoude com parameters html

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For to use looping to get all arguments and in pure batch    Obs  For using without     amp  lt  gt        echo off  amp  amp  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  for   Z in     do set   arg    Z   amp  amp  set a   cnt  1 0   amp  amp  call set   arg    cnt     arg         write test these arguments parameters    for  l   l in  1 1   cnt  do echo  The argument n   l is    arg    l    goto  eof         Your code is ready to do something with the argument number where it needs  like       echo off  amp  amp  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  for   Z in     do set   arg    Z   amp  amp  set a   cnt  1 0   amp  amp  call set   arg    cnt     arg     echo    arg  1     arg  2     arg  2   gt  log txt

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dancavallaro has it right     for all command line parameters  excluding the script name itself   You might also find these useful    0 - the command used to call the batch file  could be foo     foo  c  bats foo bat  etc    1 is the first command line parameter   2 is the second command line parameter  and so on till  9  and SHIFT can be used for those after the 9th       nx0 - the actual name of the batch file  regardless of calling method  some-batch bat    dp0 - drive and path to the script   d  scripts    dpnx0 - is the fully qualified path name of the script  d  scripts some-batch bat     More info examples at https   www ss64 com nt syntax-args html and https   www robvanderwoude com parameters html

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seems to hold all of the arguments passed to the script

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dancavallaro has it right     for all command line parameters  excluding the script name itself   You might also find these useful    0 - the command used to call the batch file  could be foo     foo  c  bats foo bat  etc    1 is the first command line parameter   2 is the second command line parameter  and so on till  9  and SHIFT can be used for those after the 9th       nx0 - the actual name of the batch file  regardless of calling method  some-batch bat    dp0 - drive and path to the script   d  scripts    dpnx0 - is the fully qualified path name of the script  d  scripts some-batch bat     More info examples at https   www ss64 com nt syntax-args html and https   www robvanderwoude com parameters html

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dancavallaro has it right     for all command line parameters  excluding the script name itself   You might also find these useful    0 - the command used to call the batch file  could be foo     foo  c  bats foo bat  etc    1 is the first command line parameter   2 is the second command line parameter  and so on till  9  and SHIFT can be used for those after the 9th       nx0 - the actual name of the batch file  regardless of calling method  some-batch bat    dp0 - drive and path to the script   d  scripts    dpnx0 - is the fully qualified path name of the script  d  scripts some-batch bat     More info examples at https   www ss64 com nt syntax-args html and https   www robvanderwoude com parameters html

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I found that next time when you need to look up these information  Instead of opening a browser and google it  you could just type call    in your cmd and you ll get it           in a batch script refers to all the arguments  e g   1  2  3      4  5       Substitution of batch parameters   n  has been enhanced   You can now use the following optional syntax         1         - expands  1 removing any surrounding quotes           f1        - expands  1 to a fully qualified path name       d1        - expands  1 to a drive letter only       p1        - expands  1 to a path only       n1        - expands  1 to a file name only       x1        - expands  1 to a file extension only       s1        - expanded path contains short names only       a1        - expands  1 to file attributes       t1        - expands  1 to date time of file       z1        - expands  1 to size of file        PATH 1   - searches the directories listed in the PATH                    environment variable and expands  1 to the fully                    qualified name of the first one found   If the                    environment variable name is not defined or the                    file is not found by the search  then this                    modifier expands to the empty string  The modifiers can be combined to get compound results         dp1       - expands  1 to a drive letter and path only       nx1       - expands  1 to a file name and extension only       dp PATH 1 - searches the directories listed in the PATH                    environment variable for  1 and expands to the                    drive letter and path of the first one found        ftza1     - expands  1 to a DIR like output line  In the above examples  1 and PATH can be replaced by other valid values   The    syntax is terminated by a valid argument number   The    modifiers may not be used with

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seems to hold all of the arguments passed to the script

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seems to hold all of the arguments passed to the script

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I found that next time when you need to look up these information  Instead of opening a browser and google it  you could just type call    in your cmd and you ll get it           in a batch script refers to all the arguments  e g   1  2  3      4  5       Substitution of batch parameters   n  has been enhanced   You can now use the following optional syntax         1         - expands  1 removing any surrounding quotes           f1        - expands  1 to a fully qualified path name       d1        - expands  1 to a drive letter only       p1        - expands  1 to a path only       n1        - expands  1 to a file name only       x1        - expands  1 to a file extension only       s1        - expanded path contains short names only       a1        - expands  1 to file attributes       t1        - expands  1 to date time of file       z1        - expands  1 to size of file        PATH 1   - searches the directories listed in the PATH                    environment variable and expands  1 to the fully                    qualified name of the first one found   If the                    environment variable name is not defined or the                    file is not found by the search  then this                    modifier expands to the empty string  The modifiers can be combined to get compound results         dp1       - expands  1 to a drive letter and path only       nx1       - expands  1 to a file name and extension only       dp PATH 1 - searches the directories listed in the PATH                    environment variable for  1 and expands to the                    drive letter and path of the first one found        ftza1     - expands  1 to a DIR like output line  In the above examples  1 and PATH can be replaced by other valid values   The    syntax is terminated by a valid argument number   The    modifiers may not be used with

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If you have parameters in quotes that containing spaces     will not work correctly  The best solution I found is to have a loop that joins all arguments  https   serverfault com a 22541  set args  1 shift  start if   1        goto done set args  args   1 shift goto start   done  use  args  here

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Here is a fairly simple way to get the args and set them as env vars  In this example I will just refer to them as Keys and Values   Save the following code example as  args bat   Then call the batch file you saved from a command line  example  arg bat --x 90 --y 120  I have provided some echo commands to step you through the process  But the end result is that --x will have a value of 90 and --y will have a value of 120 that is if you run the example as specified above  -      You can then use the  if defined  conditional statement to determine whether or not to run your code block  So lets say run       arg bat --x hello-world   I could then use the statement  IF DEFINED --x echo  --x   and the results would be  hello-world   It should make more sense if you run the batch    setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion  ECHO off ECHO  ECHO                            arg bat example                                 ECHO    By       User2631477  2013-07-29                                      ECHO    Version  1 0                                                            ECHO    Purpose  Checks the args passed to the batch                            ECHO                                                                            ECHO    Start by gathering all the args with the     in a for loop              ECHO                                                                            ECHO    Now we use a  for  loop to search for our keys which are identified     ECHO    by the text  --   The function then sets the --arg    to the next       ECHO    arg   CALL Function GetValue    lt search for --  gt    lt each arg  gt             ECHO                                                                            ECHO                                                                             ECHO   ECHO                                                                            ECHO    From the command line you could pass    arg bat --x 90 --y 220          ECHO                                                                            ECHO  ECHO Checking Args       FOR   a IN      do       CALL Function GetValue  --     a      ECHO  ECHO                                                                            ECHO    Now lets check which args were set to variables                         ECHO                                                                            ECHO  ECHO                                                                            ECHO    For this we are using the CALL Function Show Defined  --x --y --z       ECHO                                                                            ECHO  CALL Function Show Defined  --x --y --z  endlocal goto done   Function GetValue  REM First we use find string to locate and search for the text  echo   2   findstr  C    1  1 gt nul  REM Next we check the errorlevel return to see if it contains a key or a value REM and set the appropriate action   if not errorlevel 1     SET KEY   2   ELSE     SET VALUE   2   IF DEFINED VALUE       SET  KEY    2     ECHO      ECHO                             0                                    ECHO    The KEY   KEY   is now set to the VALUE   VALUE                              ECHO                                                                                 ECHO      ECHO  KEY    2     ECHO      REM It s important to clear the definitions for the key and value in order to     REM search for the next key value set      SET KEY      SET VALUE    GOTO EOF   Function Show Defined  ECHO  ECHO                       0                                  ECHO    Checks which args were defined i e    2 ECHO                                                                             ECHO  SET ARGS   1 for   s in   ARGS   DO       ECHO      ECHO                                                                                 ECHO    For the ARG     s                               IF DEFINED   s           ECHO    Defined as     s    s                                                      else           ECHO    Not Defined    s  and thus has no value            ECHO                                                                                 ECHO    goto EOF   done

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Sometimes I need to extract several command line parameters  but not all of them and not from the first one  Let s assume the following call   Test bat uno dos tres cuatro cinco seis siete   Of course  the extension   bat  is not needed at least you have test exe in same folder  What we want is to get the output  tres cuatro cinco   no matter if one line or three   The goal is that only I need three parameters and starting in the third one  In order to have a simple example the action for each one is just  echo   but you can think in some other more complex action over the selected parameters   I ve produced some examples   options  in order you can see which one you consider better for you  Unfortunately  there is not a nice  or I don t know about  way based on a for loop over the range like  for   i in   3  1   5       echo off  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  echo Option 1  one by one  same line  echo  3   4   5 echo   echo Option 2  Loop For one by one for   a in   3   4   5  do echo   a echo   echo Option 3  Loop For with check of limits set i 0 for   a in      do       set  A i i 1     If  i  GTR 2 if  i  LSS 6 echo   a   echo   echo Option 4  Loop For with auxiliary list for  l   i in  3 1 5  do        set a   i     set b echo        set b  b  a      call  b    echo   echo Option 5  Assigning to an array of elements previously set e 0   0 set i 0  for   a in      do       set  A i i 1     set e  i     a   for   l   i in  3 1 5  do       echo  e   i     echo   echo Option 6  using shift and goto loop  It doesn t work with for loop set i 2  loop6     set  A i i 1     echo  3     shift     If  i  LSS 5 goto  loop6   Probably you can find more options or combine several ones  Enjoy them

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The following code simulates an array   params   - takes the parameters received by the script and stores them in the variables params 1    params n  where n params 0 the number of elements of the array    echo off  rem Storing the program parameters into the array  params   rem Delayed expansion is left disabled in order not to interpret     in program parameters  values  rem however  if a parameter is not quoted  special characters in it  like        amp         get interpreted at program launch set  a count 0  repeat     set  a count  1     set  params  count    1      shift     if defined params  count            goto  repeat       else           set  a count- 1           set  a params 0 count  rem Printing the program parameters stored in the array  params   rem After the variables params 1    params n are set with the program parameters  values  delayed expansion can rem be enabled and     are not interpreted in the variables params 1    params n values setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     for  l   i in  1 1  params 0   do           echo params   i    params   i         endlocal  pause goto  eof

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You can use For Commad to get list of Arg   Help   For    Help   Setlocal     Here is my way     echo off   For Run Use This   cmd  c   Args cmd  Hello USER Scientist etc  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set  a Count 0 for   I IN      DO    Echo Arg  Count      I  set  a Count  1    Echo Count Of Args    Count  Endlocal   Do not need Shift command

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Windows version  needs socat though   C  Program Files  x86  Git bin gt type gitproxy cmd socat STDIO PROXY proxy mycompany de  1  2 proxyport 3128   setting it up   C  Users exhau AppData Roaming npm gt git config --global core gitproxy gitproxy cmd

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The following code simulates an array   params   - takes the parameters received by the script and stores them in the variables params 1    params n  where n params 0 the number of elements of the array    echo off  rem Storing the program parameters into the array  params   rem Delayed expansion is left disabled in order not to interpret     in program parameters  values  rem however  if a parameter is not quoted  special characters in it  like        amp         get interpreted at program launch set  a count 0  repeat     set  a count  1     set  params  count    1      shift     if defined params  count            goto  repeat       else           set  a count- 1           set  a params 0 count  rem Printing the program parameters stored in the array  params   rem After the variables params 1    params n are set with the program parameters  values  delayed expansion can rem be enabled and     are not interpreted in the variables params 1    params n values setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     for  l   i in  1 1  params 0   do           echo params   i    params   i         endlocal  pause goto  eof

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The way to retrieve all the args to a script is here    ECHO off ECHO The   nx0 script args are    for   I IN      DO ECHO   I pause

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For to use looping to get all arguments and in pure batch    Obs  For using without     amp  lt  gt        echo off  amp  amp  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  for   Z in     do set   arg    Z   amp  amp  set a   cnt  1 0   amp  amp  call set   arg    cnt     arg         write test these arguments parameters    for  l   l in  1 1   cnt  do echo  The argument n   l is    arg    l    goto  eof         Your code is ready to do something with the argument number where it needs  like       echo off  amp  amp  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  for   Z in     do set   arg    Z   amp  amp  set a   cnt  1 0   amp  amp  call set   arg    cnt     arg     echo    arg  1     arg  2     arg  2   gt  log txt

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Lot of the information above led me to further research and ultimately my answer so I wanted to contribute what I wound up doing in hopes it helps someone else    I also wanted to pass a varied number of variables to a batch file so that they could be processed within the file  I was ok with passing them to the batch file using quotes I would want them processed similar to the below - but using a loop instead of writing out manually    So I wanted to execute this   prog ZipDeleteFiles bat   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP    appFile PCAP       And via the magic of for loops do this within the batch file   set   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP  set   appFile PCAP       Problem I was having is that all my attempts to use a for loop weren t working   The below example   for  f  tokens  delims    in   A      DO      set   A     would just do   set   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP    and not   set   appPath C  Services Logs PCAP  set   appFile PCAP       even after setting   SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion   Reason was that the for loop read the whole line and assigned my second parameter to   B during the first iteration of the loop   Because    represents all arguments  there is only a single line to process - ergo only one pass of the for loop happens   This is by design it turns out  and my logic was wrong   So I stopped trying to use a for loop and simplified what I was trying to do by using if  shift  and a goto statement   Agreed its a bit of a hack but it s more suited to my needs  I can loop through all of the arguments and then use an if statement to drop out of the loop once I process them all   The winning statement for what I was trying to accomplish   echo on  processArguments    Process all arguments in the order received if defined  1 then       set  1     shift     goto processArguments   ELSE       echo off      UPDATE - I had to modify to the below instead  I was exposing all of the environment variables when trying to reference  1 and using shift in this manner   echo on shift  processArguments    Process all arguments in the order received if defined  0 then       set  0     shift     goto processArguments   ELSE       echo off

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