How do I make a series of files run through a software as its input using batch script?

Question

I have 100 files, for example c1.mat, c2.mat, ..., c100.mat

I want to loop through each file to run a simulation within a software, taking one file at a time.

How do I write a batch script for the same?

@echo off 
title conductivity changes

start fem.srn -e c1.mat

This script opens the program. But does not take the file c1.mat as a variable.

Duplicate question I believe: See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1355791/how-do-you-loop-in-a-windows-batch-file). — Ken Clement, Dec 06 '15 at 04:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '15 at 04:20

For a bash script (sorry misread the original question when I saw 'batch')

for file in *
do
   echo $file
done

Replace the echo command above with your command. you can also replace * with something like c*.mat or *.mat Also you can use a word other than file.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '15 at 04:22

0

This for loop might work.

for /l %%a in (1,1,100) do (
    start fem.srn -e c%%a.mat
    timeout 5
    rem timeout needed?
)

answered Dec 06 '15 at 04:22

cwahls

How do I save out outputs and then exit the program? – Purbasha Garai Dec 06 '15 at 04:46
Outputs of the mat program, or do you want to get user input in the batch file to work with later? – cwahls Dec 06 '15 at 05:00

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