Hi, I need to run a particular se of commands repetatively for some number of times provided by userin for loop. I am doing it this way user input the no of arguments and arguments i.e 3 d:\\input.txt d:\\dir1 d:\\dir2 my batch file set k=%%1 for %%i(%%(k-2) do cd %%(k-1) //comment: i want to go to dir1 java tsafe.main.Main //command to be run copy %%i d://dir3//test1.txt serve.py //command to be run done but nothing is working i was doing this shell script earlier with cygwin . Any help greatly appreciated Thanks

hello, sorry, im pretty handy with batch files, but to tell ya the truth, i dont pay attention to use all thet %1 stuff, except when i make a menu like '%choice%' but i know how to make a loop, im not sure if its what your looking for but here is a loob to tell the time and date... echo off title loop cls :up echo %date% %time cls goto up and that would update the time and date every split second...is this any help ?

forgot about the other % in time

Hi Shrads, If that's your real code, you have a couple obvious problems. 1. The path separator in DOS & windows is the SINGLE backslash. So these won't help: d:\\dir1 d://dir3//test1.txt 2. I guess you mean to use this as a comment //command to be run as in C or C++ It won't work in batch. In batch, a comment goes on a line by itself, preceeded by :: or rem [and at least one space] examples: ::this is a comment rem this is a comment remthis is a mess dir //this is also a mess After you wring out those problems, post back. HTH M2