Permanently setting PATH from CMD windows 8

How do I copy/replace files from a relative path to a .lnk target location?

Use the following batch file:

@echo off
setlocal
rem get the .lnk target directory
for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%i in (`type "C:\Users\Home\Desktop\Example.lnk" ^| find "\" ^| findstr/b "[a-z][:][\\]"`) do (
  set _targetdir=%%~dpi
  )
rem copy the files
copy /y file1.exe %_targetdir%
copy /y file2.exe %_targetdir%
endlocal

My code gives an error "the syntax of the command is incorrect".

• You are missing the " after lnk in the for command.

• %_target% should be %_targetdir% (that was a mistake in my batch file - now fixed).

Here is the corrected version of your batch file:

@echo off
setlocal
rem get the .lnk target directory
for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%i in (`type "C:\Users\Abdo\Desktop\Gravity.lnk" ^| find "\" ^| findstr/b "[a-z][:][\\]"`) do (
  set _targetdir=%%~dpi
  )
rem copy the files
copy /y Gravity.pdf %_targetdir%
endlocal

Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line - An excellent reference for all things Windows cmd line related.
• find - Search for a text string in a file & display all the lines where it is found.
• findstr - Search for strings in files.
• parameters - A command line argument (or parameter) is any value passed into a batch script.
• set - Display, set, or remove CMD environment variables. Changes made with SET will remain only for the duration of the current CMD session.
• type - Display the contents of one or more text files.
• for /f - Loop command against the results of another command.

To delete variables in the current cmd instance, do this:

set http_proxy=
set https_proxy=

or (even better):

set "http_proxy="
set "https_proxy="

To delete variables for future cmd instances, do this:

setx http_proxy ""
setx https_proxy ""