Re: For Statement

Brendon Rogers

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6th Oct 2003

You need an escape character "^"

Try:

FOR /F "Tokens=3-5" %%X IN ('DIR \ServerName\D$\ ^ | FIND /I "bytes free"')
DO ECHO %%X

"Barney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:237c301c38c42$751582a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Why is the following script statement failing?
>
> FOR /F "Tokens=3-5" %%X IN ('DIR \ServerName\D$\
> |FIND /I "bytes free"') DO ECHO %%X
>
> The command interpretor returns the following:
>
> | was unexpected at this time.

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