Redirect output of command in for loop of batch sc

Question

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for /F %%F in ('dir /B %* 2> nul') do (
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What I'm attempting to do here is discard the err output of the command (and loop over the stdout output). However, it complains:

2> was unexpected at this time.

Is this some way to achieve this?

Answer 1

in this case you need to escape the > like this

for /F %%F in ('dir /B %* 2^> nul') do (

Answer 2

I believe you need a delimiting space between the "2" and the ">". Without that delimiter my dir test output still displayed on the screen. Furthermore, I believe that by sending the output of the dir command to null will not provide any data back for the set to process.