From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Harry Potter wrote:   
      
   > __Auric: I see two bugs in your batch file.  The first line should read:   
   >   
   > if "%%1"=="" goto end   
      
   Pretty much anything would also work here -- I normally have '%1==' in my   
   batches, not the oopsie I originally posted. As I said, I'm out of practice.   
      
   > Then you have to end with:   
   >   
   >:end   
   > pause   
   >   
   > The pause is only necessary if you want to read the batch file's output.   
      
   It's funny. Lately I've been using certain programming languages that do in   
   fact have an "end" keyword; that's what threw me off. Batches in fact have   
   :EOF instead. (On NT systems, anyway; can't remember about 9x or DOS but it   
   wouldn't surprise me if the answer was "no.")   
      
   Also, pause would only necessary if run from the GUI; when run from the   
   terminal it shouldn't be.   
      
   The corrected batch is:   
      
     if '%1==' goto :EOF   
     cd /D "%1"   
     copy *.ino *.txt   
     for /d /r %%a in (*) do (   
     cd "%%a"   
     copy *.ino *.txt )   
      
   The original botched version worked for me, so I had no reason to test   
   things like "no arguments passed." (As I said, I did the whole thing in 30   
   seconds.)   
      
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