in reply to How do I execute a shell command against each file in a directory and it's subdirectories? (was: looking for a quickie)

No perl, cygwin or 4NT required:) 

for /F %f in ('dir /s /b') do doit -switches %f

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Re: Re: looking for a quickie
by jsprat (Curate) on Mar 18, 2003 at 19:35 UTC
    ++BUK for getting me to look at the cmd.exe docs!

    Here's another snippet -

    for /R %f in (*) do doit -switches %f

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