Cmder: alias register issue

[szabizs]

Purpose of the issue

• [X] Bug report (encountered problems/errors)
• [ ] Feature request (request for new functionality)
• [ ] Question

Version Information

180626

Windows 10 Pro - 1809

Description of the issue

for /r %i in (*.log) do (break > %i)

This command runs without problems in cmder, but when I try to add an alias to it, it gives me this error.
The command finds all *.log files in the folder and clears them with > break.
I've tried with quotes, without, with double % , without.... nothing seems to work for this alias.

λ alias clear_logs=for /r %%i in (*.log) do (break > %%i)
do was unexpected at this time.

[daxgames]

@szabizs At first glance Your alias syntax is incirrect. Search for doskey in google and look at the microsoft docs

[szabizs]

@szabizs At first glance Your alias syntax is incirrect. Search for doskey in google and look at the microsoft docs

It is correct, this script does run.

for /r %i in (*.log) do (break > %i)

λ for /r %i in ("*.log") do (break > %i)

(break  1>C:\_programming\php\comercial_upgrade\comercial_upgrade\storage\logs\laravel-2019-09-27.log )
(break  1>C:\_programming\php\comercial_upgrade\comercial_upgrade\storage\logs\laravel-2019-10-01.log )
(break  1>C:\_programming\php\comercial_upgrade\comercial_upgrade\storage\logs\laravel-2019-10-02.log )

[daxgames]

No its not. It might be correct dos batch but it is not correct doskey because of the special characters like '>'. Look at the doskey docs as Irecommended and cmder aliases wiki

[daxgames]

Pay attention to the cmder aloas command lin syntax on escaping '%' also.

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