I am trying to increment a counter as I loop through a section of a batch file. I tried using 'set /a' and incrementing a variable, but I could not figure out how to echo the value of the variable. Can someone tell me how to do this?

After quite a bit of searching, I managed to find the answer to my question: Environment variable that get evaluated within a FOR loop get expanded only at the beginning of the loop. So the following snippet does not produce the expected result: set count=1 FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b') do ( echo %count%: %%a set /a count+=1) To force the variable to get evaluated at the proper iteration, use the new subroutine call mechanism to take the evaluation outside of the loop. set count=1 FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b') do ( call :exec echo %%count%%: %%a set /a count+=1) goto :EOF :exec %* goto :EOF