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I'm trying to run a command on all files within a directory (and its child directories) but am struggling to generate a relative path for the files I find.

The code I have is...

@echo off set currentDir=%~dp0 for /r %%f in (*.js) do ( echo %currentDir% echo %%f set relativePath=%%%f:%currentDir%=% echo %relativePath% )

Basically if I run the script in C:\somedir and it finds C:\somedir\anotherdir\file.js I need %relativePath% to contain only anotherdir\file.js

Please help!

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EDITED - to adapt to required output. 

 @echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion rem to take batch file directory as current directory set "currentDir=%~dp0" rem OR to take current directory as current directory set "currentDir=%cd%" rem Select only one of the above rem add trailing backslash if not present if not "%currentDir:~-1%"=="\" set "currentDir=%currentDir%\" rem Do recurse directory for /r %%f in (*.js) do ( set "relativePath=%%f" set "relativePath=!relativepath:%currentDir%=!" echo %relativePath% )
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+1, but I love the endlocals when setlocal is used :-).It's more neat.
@npocmaka : I agree. I've not included it thinking batch file will need more content. Anyway, endlocal is implicit and at end of batch file execution, any pending setlocal is canceled. It's only mandatory if you need to ensure, after a setlocal has been emited, that changes to environment variables persist. BUT, yes, i prefer balanced code.

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