Command to Close All Open Files on Server
for /f "skip=4 tokens=1" %a
in ('net files') do net files %a /close
The command works by passing the file ID elements from
the list produced by the net files command to the
action argument of the for command, net files
file ID /close. When you use the
iterative substitution (%a in this case) as part
of a batch file, the substitution needs to be %%a.
For the batch file version of the command, use the
following syntax:
for /f "skip=4 tokens=1"
%%a in ('net files') do net files %%a /close
In both cases, this command will appear to return an
error because the last line of output from net files
is "The Command Completed Successfully" and there is no
file ID denoted as "The".