Sending variables to batch programs

[AkiraKenshin]

IF i have a variable (more specifically, one inside a for loop), can I send that variable to a nested program using call so that program can use it? I'm currently trying to place files in the fight folder, because VSS only allows retrieving files into the folder that the batch file is invoking from, so I've figured out how to make the directories they go into, but I'll need the second batch program to actualyl run VSS inside each directory. However each VSS has a different parameter, where the list is kept in a text file. So i need to send that parameter that I've already extracted frmo the first batch file into the second.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

Yes.

Use in the command syntax

FOR /G %%i IN (list) CALL second.bat %%i

In second.bat the first available variable %1 is then equal to %%i

 

[AkiraKenshin]

Thanks, that was most helpful, but I realize now that I have to be writing a batch file within a batch file in second.bat, but i'll post that separately here