Windows 10: .bat files changed?

Greetings.

Regarding Windows 10.

I have a .bat file that I've used for... well, since forever. It rarely changes and it hasn't changed in months. Despite running quite fine in its current incarnation for some months now it's quite recently it's began throwing the error: "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

So I checked and it's failing on two commands:

if exist "path:\to\directory" (

various indented lines of blahblah

)

and

for /F %f in ('dir /b /s') do blahblahblah

Specifically, the IF EXIST and FOR commands are throwing the errors, not what's inside of them to do.

I can paste these lines into a command prompt (either admin or not admin) and they execute successfully. If they run from a .bat file, however, it throws the aforementioned error.

Has something changed in Windows 10?

If so, how can I make this .bat file run again?

If not, what would cause this to suddenly happen?

Thank you for your time.

("use powershell", some may say. "I don't know powershell", I says)

edit: I just realized how unclear my title is but I can't edit the title. Sorry folks.

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