batch script - run command on each file in directory

Question

I need to convert some xls files into xlsx files. I can successfully convert one xls file into xlsx by running this command into cmd prompt (windows):

ssconv         


        

Answer 1

you can run something like this (paste the code bellow in a .bat, or if you want it to run interractively replace the %% by % :

for %%i in (c:\directory\*.xls) do ssconvert %%i %%i.xlsx

If you can run powershell it will be :

Get-ChildItem -Path c:\directory -filter *.xls | foreach {ssconvert $($_.FullName) $($_.baseName).xlsx }