Copy files to all subdirectories

Question

I was planning on using a command like this

FOR /R %f in (".") DO xcopt test.txt %f

to copy a file into all subdirectories of a folder.

This works fine when I write the file into the command prompt but it doesn't work when I put it into a batch file and run the batch file.

Any ideas as to why this wouldn't run from a batch file?

Thanks

Answer 1

It is probably to do with your %f in a batch file these should be %%f. This is to do with the way variable expansion is performed in batch files.

Answer 2

for /?

brings up the help. The first paragraph of text mentions:

To use the FOR command in a batch program, specify %%variable instead of %variable. ...