windows - %%A was unexpected at this time

Question

I want to zip a folder containing files. So inorder to do that i need to loop through the entire file list and execute 7za command. (7zip command line version)

for /f %%A in ('"G:Files Samplezipxt*.t
xt"') do 7za -tzip "%%A.zip" "%%A"

However windows says that this command is not valid.

Error message is

%%A was unexpected at this time

How do i overcome this issue ?

Answer 1

%%A is used when you use a batch program (*.bat)

try remove one '%'