“was unexpected at this time.”

Question

I\'m running this command on a batch file:

for %I in (*.txt *.doc) do copy %I c:\\test2

...and it keeps returning:

Answer 1

I ran across a case where I was getting this error from a file that was named *.cmd. The error arose when I tried to access the first argument to the batch command:

if %1 EQU ""

Once I put quotes around the symbol for the first argument, the warning message went away:

if "%1" EQU ""