I'm trying to use CMDER for a development environment that I've setup.
Basically I've created a .bat file that calls:
#ECHO OFF
start Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\CMDER\Cmder.exe
Then I've placed the file startdev.bat in:
%CMDER_HOME%\config\profile.d
So everything seems to work just fine, but when the startdev.bat finishes, issuing an:
echo %PATH%
returns:
Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\1_COMPILER\JDK\ORACLE\1.8.0_181\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_CYGWIN\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\CLutils;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\PUTTY;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\6_VERSION_CONTROL\PortableGit\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64;C:\WINDOWS\System32
...any idea what's happening?
I would either expect CMDER to override PATH with the value from its own settings, or use my full path, which before the startdev.bat ends shows the value of:
PATH=Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\CMDER\vendor\conemu-maximus5;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\CMDER\vendor\conemu-maximus5\ConEmu;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\CMDER\vendor\conemu-maximus5\ConEmu\Scripts;Z:\_DEV\OS_ALL\JVM\3_BUILD_TOOLS\GRADLE\5.4\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_ALL\JVM\3_BUILD_TOOLS\MAVEN\3.5.4\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_ALL\JVM\3_BUILD_TOOLS\ANT\1.10.5\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\3_BUILD_TOOLS\NODE\LTS\10.15.3;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\3_BUILD_TOOLS\NODE\LTS\10.15.3\node_modules;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\1_COMPILER\GO\1.12.4\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\1_COMPILER\PYTHON\32bit\2.7.13;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\1_COMPILER\PYTHON\32bit\2.7.13\scripts;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\1_COMPILER\ANDROID\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\1_COMPILER\JDK\ORACLE\1.8.0_181\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_CYGWIN\bin;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\CLutils;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\9_MISC_TOOLS\PUTTY;Z:\_DEV\OS_WINDOWS\6_VERSION_CONTROL\PortableGit\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64;C:\WINDOWS\System32
..but the fact that it only seems to be keeping the value as defined about halfway through the batch job is strange.
Any ideas?
First I recommend opening a command prompt window and run setlocal /? and endlocal /? to get displayed the help/documentation for those two commands. Very important to know is that every setlocal without a corresponding endlocal results in an implicit execution of endlocal by cmd.exe before exiting processing of a batch file or a subroutine called with command CALL.
Next I suggest reading this answer for even more details about the commands SETLOCAL and ENDLOCAL and what happens on using them.
I suggest like michael_heath to change this code block:
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set CLASSPATH=.
for /R %JRE_HOME%\lib %%a in (*.jar) do (
set CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%a
)
set CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!
Better would be:
setLocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
set CLASSPATH=.
for /R "%JRE_HOME%\lib" %%a in (*.jar) do set "CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%a"
endlocal & set "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%"
Now the local environment is ended with passing the environment variable CLASSPATH from local environment, on which it was defined, to the restored previous environment because of cmd.exe expands %CLASSPATH% to current value of the environment variable CLASSPATH in current local environment before executing the command endlocal which restores the previous environment.
Wrong in your batch file is also set WINDIR=%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot% which should be set "WINDIR=%SystemRoot%".
I recommend further reading Why is no string output with 'echo %var%' after using 'set var = text' on command line? It explains why the syntax set "variable=string value" is recommended nowadays. Many of the environment variable definitions use directly or indirectly %UserProfile% which means depending on whatever the user currently running the batch file has entered as user name on creation of the user account. I have seen users entering their name containing a space and non ASCII characters. And I have seen users creating an account with a user name containing character & like Company GmbH & Co. An ampersand outside a double quoted argument string is interpreted as AND operator and cmd.exe tries to execute after set also the remaining string after & as command line on using something like set USERHOME=%DEVHOME%\%USERNAME% instead of set "USERHOME=%DEVHOME%\%USERNAME%". Well, startdev.bat redefines nearly all predefined Windows Environment Variables including USERNAME and USERPROFILE and so is written safe for most environment variable definitions.
This code block is also not optimal:
FOR /F "usebackq" %%i IN (`hostname`) DO SET HOSTNAME=%%i
echo Running on hostname: %HOSTNAME%
The host name respectively computer name could contain also a space or characters critical for command line or start with a semicolon for some unknown reason. So better would be:
FOR /F delims^=^ eol^= %%i IN ('hostname') DO SET "HOSTNAME=%%i"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion & echo Running on host name: !HOSTNAME!& endlocal
Whereby there is the environment variable COMPUTERNAME predefined by Windows making it possible to use just following command line:
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion & echo Running on host name: !ComputerName!& endlocal
An ECHO command line containing an immediately expanded environment variable reference on which it is unknown if its value contains &|<> is always a problem because of the environment variable reference is expanded before further processing of the command line by cmd.exe as described at How does the Windows Command Interpreter (CMD.EXE) parse scripts?
I suggest also reading DosTips forum topic ECHO. FAILS to give text or blank line - Instead use ECHO/ and avoid the usage of echo. in the batch file to output an empty line.
"halfway through the batch job" as you have a
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion which sets any further
changes to the variable PATH or other set variables as local.
The endLocal not specified is implied at the end of the script.
To resolve this, use endLocal and set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%
on the same parsed line to set CLASSPATH as global.
Change this part:
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set CLASSPATH=.
for /R %JRE_HOME%\lib %%a in (*.jar) do (
set CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%a
)
set CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!
to this:
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set CLASSPATH=.
for /R %JRE_HOME%\lib %%a in (*.jar) do (
set CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%a
)
endLocal & set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%
After that changed part, the script will set variables as global again.
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I have a list of paths from which I want to extract folder name
I wrote:
#echo off
set paths[0]="C:\p\test1"
set paths[1]="C:\p\test2"
set paths[2]="C:\p\test3"
(for %%p in (%paths%) do (
for %%F in (%%p) do echo Processing %%~nxF
))
but seems that nothing is shown.
I expected to see:
Processing test1
Processing test2
Processing test3
It makes a big difference if first " is specified on a set command line left to variable name or left to variable value. In most cases it is better to specify it left to the variable name, especially if a variable value holding a path should be concatenated later with a file name to a full qualified file name.
See also: Why is no string output with 'echo %var%' after using 'set var = text' on command line?
The solution for this task is:
#echo off
set "paths[0]=C:\p\test1"
set "paths[1]=C:\p\test2"
set "paths[2]=C:\p\test3"
for /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%I in ('set paths[ 2^>nul') do echo Processing %%~nxJ
The command FOR with option /F and a set enclosed in ' results in starting one more command process running in background with %ComSpec% /c and the command line specified between the two ' appended as further arguments. So executed is in this case with Windows installed to C:\Windows:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c set paths[ 2>nul
The command SET outputs all environment variables of which name starts with paths[ line by line using the format VariableName=VariableValue to handle STDOUT of started background command process.
It could be that there is no environment variable of which name starts with paths[ which would result in an error message output to handle STDERR by command SET which would be redirected from background command process to handle STDERR of the command process which is processing the batch file and for that reason would be displayed in console window. For that reason a possible error message is redirected by the background command process to device NUL to suppress it with using 2>nul.
Read the Microsoft article about Using command redirection operators for an explanation of 2>nul. The redirection operator > must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal character when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded set command line with using a separate command process started in background.
FOR captures in this case everything written to handle STDOUT of started background command process and process this output line by line after started cmd.exe terminated itself.
Empty lines are ignored by FOR which does not matter here as there are no empty lines to process.
FOR would split up a non-empty line into substrings using normal space and horizontal tab as string delimiters and would assign just first space/tab separated string to specified loop variable, if it does not start with default end of line character ;. This default line splitting behavior is not wanted here. For that reason the option delims== defines the equal sign as string delimiter.
The option tokens=1* instructs FOR to assign in this case the variable name to specified loop variable I and assign everything after the equal sign(s) after variable name without any further string splitting on equal signs to next loop variable according to ASCII table which is in this case J. That is the reason why loop variables are interpreted case-sensitive while environment variables are handled case-insensitive by the Windows command processor.
In this case only the variable value is of interest in the body of the FOR loop. For that reason just loop variable J is used on ECHO command line while I is not used at all.
The modifier %~nxJ results in removing surrounding double quotes from string value assigned to loop variable J and next get the string after last backslash or beginning of string in case of the string value does not contain a backslash at all. This is the name of the last folder in folder path string.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
echo /?
for /?
set /?
UPDATE:
There is a big advantage of this solution in comparison to the other two solutions posted up to now here:
There is not used delayed environment variable expansion which is always problematic on working with file or folder names on not being 100% sure that no folder and no file contains ever an exclamation mark in its name.
Let us compare the three solutions with unusual folder names containing !.
#echo off
rem Make sure there is no environment variable defined of which name starts with
rem paths[ as suggested by Compo which is a very valuable addition on my code.
for /F "delims==" %%I in ('set paths[ 2^>nul') do set "%%I="
set "paths[0]=C:\p\test1!"
set "paths[1]=C:\p\!test2"
set "paths[2]=C:\p\!test!3"
echo/
echo Results of solution 1:
echo/
for /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%I in ('set paths[ 2^>nul') do echo Processing %%~nxJ
echo/
echo Results of solution 2:
echo/
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /L %%i in (0,1,2) do (
for %%j in (!paths[%%i]!) do echo Processing %%~nxj
)
endLocal
echo/
echo Results of solution 3:
echo/
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Call :process paths "!paths[0]!" "!paths[1]!" "!paths[2]!"
Endlocal
echo/
pause
goto :EOF
:process
Set P_C=0
Set /a P_C-=1
For %%a in (%*) DO (
CALL :populate %1 "%%~a"
)
Set /a P_C-=1
For /L %%b in (0,1,!P_C!) DO (
ECHO Processing %1[%%b] = "!%1[%%b]!"
)
GOTO :EOF
:populate
Set "%1[!P_C!]=%~2"
Set /a P_C+=1
GOTO :EOF
The output on running this batch file is:
Results of solution 1:
Processing test1!
Processing !test2
Processing !test!3
Results of solution 2:
Processing test1
Processing test2
Processing 3
Results of solution 3:
Processing paths[0] = "C:\p\test1\p\\p\3"
Solution 1 as posted here works for all three folder names correct.
Solution 2 omits for first and second folder name the exclamation mark which will most likely cause errors on further processing. The third folder name is modified to something completely different. Enabled delayed expansion results in parsing a second time echo Processing %%~nxj after %~nxj being replaced by !test!3 with interpreting test in folder name now as environment variable name of which value is referenced delayed. There was no environment variable test defined on running this batch file and so !test!3 became just 3 before echo was executed by Windows command processor.
Solution 3 produces garbage on any folder name contains an exclamation mark, even on full qualified folder name defined before enabling delayed expansion and referenced with delayed expansion on calling the subroutine process.
Well, folder and file names with an exclamation mark in name are fortunately rare which makes the usage of delayed expansion usually no problem. But I want to mention here nevertheless the potential problems which could occur on any folder name containing one or more !.
Something like that should work :
#echo off
set paths[0]="C:\p\test1"
set paths[1]="C:\p\test2"
set paths[2]="C:\p\test3"
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /L %%i in (0,1,2) do (
for %%j in (!paths[%%i]!) do echo Processing %%~nxj
)
pause
Define the Array within the function.
This approach can be used to define multiplay Arrays.
#ECHO OFF
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
:: REM P_C is used to define the range of the Array. The -1 operations on P_C is to shift the paths parameter out of the Arrays working Index.
::REM the first parameter passed is used as the Arrays Name. all other parameters are assigned to index values 0 +
Call :process paths "C:\p\test1" "C:\p\test2" "C:\p\test3"
pause
:process
Set P_C=0
Set /a P_C-=1
For %%a in (%*) DO (
CALL :populate %1 "%%~a"
)
Set /a P_C-=1
For /L %%b in (0,1,!P_C!) DO (
ECHO Processing %1[%%b] = "!%1[%%b]!"
)
GOTO :EOF
:populate
Set "%1[!P_C!]=%~2"
Set /a P_C+=1
GOTO :EOF
I'm required to write a program that displays the computer name, username, and path to user files. All of these should be taken from local system variables. It's been hinted that I'm supposed to use the set command, however, I'm not sure how to use the set command in this situation... I had assumed that I could just use echo %COMPUTERNAME% etc. How can I implement the set command?
I'm guessing that the hint about the Set command was so that you could use the output of it to help you identify the local system variables to use in your batch file, not that you need to use Set to output them.
When you enter Set at the Command prompt you'll get output showing you each of the defined system variables.
Additionally, if you enter Set ComputerName at the prompt, you should get output showing you all variables which begin with the string ComputerName.
So based on the output of the Set command you could Echo, your three variables from a batch file like this:
#Echo Off
Echo %ComputerName%
Echo %UserName%
Echo %UserProfile%
You could also include the variables with their values:
#Echo Off
Echo %%ComputerName%%=%ComputerName%
Echo %%UserName%%=%UserName%
Echo %%UserProfile%%=%UserProfile%
You could also consider running a simple For loop in your batch file to show the same content using the Set command directly:
#Echo Off
For %%A In (ComputerName,UserName,UserProfile) Do Set %%A
Pause
Or you could return just their values using Set and Echo from nested For loops:
#Echo Off
For %%A In (ComputerName,UserName,UserProfile) Do (
For /F "Tokens=1* Delims==" %%B In ('Set %%A') Do Echo %%C)
Pause
to take the question very literal ("display the computer name ... using set command"):
set computername
set username
set userprofile
output like:
COMPUTERNAME=Elon-PC
USERNAME=Muscrat
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Muskrat
(Compo already has this method in his answer, but I guess using the for command is over the boundaries of the current state of your course)
(Note: for practical use, in most cases Compo's answer (using variables) is better, because in practice, you will probably do something with the values, not "just" show them, but this literally answers your question)
I'm trying to execute a batch file "spoon.bat" from PENTAHO (pdi-ce-7.1.0.0-12), but there is an error.
Part of batch file where the error is found:
if "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set PENTAHO_JAVA=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\java.exe
if not "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set PENTAHO_JAVA=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\javaw.exe
set IS64BITJAVA=0
call "%~dp0set-pentaho-env.bat"
But I receive next below error:
The system cannot find the path specified
The error is when I'm trying to assign the path where java.exe or javaw.exe are found to "PENTAHO_JAVA".
I've modified the path with double quote mark, but doesn't work; and also I've modified as:
if "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set "PENTAHO_JAVA=C:\<Program Files (x86)>\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\java.exe"
Any idea to how declare it to fix it?
Where is the environment variable PENTAHO_JAVA referenced?
It must be referenced with "%PENTAHO_JAVA%" because the string assigned to this environment variable contains characters like a space or &()[]{}^=;!'+,`~. This is explained in help of Windows command interpreter output on running in a command prompt window cmd /? in last paragraph on last help page.
It is of course also possible to define the environment variable with the necessary double quotes already added, i.e. use:
if "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set "PENTAHO_JAVA="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\java.exe""
if not "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set "PENTAHO_JAVA="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\javaw.exe""
set "IS64BITJAVA=0"
call "%~dp0set-pentaho-env.bat"
But this is not recommended. Better would be to use
if "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\java.exe"
if not "%SPOON_CONSOLE%"=="1" set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\javaw.exe"
set "IS64BITJAVA=0"
call "%~dp0set-pentaho-env.bat"
and reference environment variable PENTAHO_JAVA enclosed in double quotes where it is necessary to specify its value enclosed in double quotes.
Example:
#echo off
rem Get path of latest installed Java directly from Windows registry.
for /F "skip=1 tokens=1,2*" %%N in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\reg.exe QUERY "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\javaws.exe" /v Path 2^>nul') do if /I "%%N" == "Path" set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%%P" & goto JavaPathFound
rem Path of Java not found in registry, search for 32-bit Java in the default
rem program files folders of 64-bit and 32-bit Windows and take first found.
if "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" == "" goto Windows_x86
for /R "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" %%I in (java*.exe) do set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%%~dpI" & goto JavaPathFound
:Windows_x86
for /R "%ProgramFiles%" %%I in (java*.exe) do set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%%~dpI" & goto JavaPathFound
echo Error: Java binary directory not found.
echo/
pause
goto :EOF
:ErrorJavaEXE
echo Error: File %PENTAHO_JAVA% not found.
echo/
pause
goto :EOF
:JavaPathFound
if not "%PENTAHO_JAVA:~-1%" == "\" set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%PENTAHO_JAVA%\"
if "%SPOON_CONSOLE%" == "1" (
set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%PENTAHO_JAVA%java.exe"
) else (
set "PENTAHO_JAVA=%PENTAHO_JAVA%javaw.exe"
)
rem Check existence of Java executable to run.
if not exist "%PENTAHO_JAVA%" goto ErrorJavaEXE
"%PENTAHO_JAVA%" -version
call "%~dp0set-pentaho-env.bat"
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
call /?
echo /?
for /?
goto /?
if /?
pause /?
reg /?
reg query /?
rem /?
Read also the Microsoft article about Using Command Redirection Operators for an explanation of 2>nul whereby redirection operator must be escaped in this batch code on FOR command line with caret character ^. And read answer on Single line with multiple commands using Windows batch file for an explanation of & operator.
Generally, don't modify the shell scripts coming with Kettle. You're supposed to set certain environment variables to adapt the scripts to your runtime environment. Look at the top comment section in script set-pentaho-env to learn what's best for your system.
BTW: The current Java 8 security baseline 8u131 was released in April 2017 - you're way behind that. Also, are you aware of the fact that you are using a 32bit JVM with limited RAM support?
I have a configuration file which I need for my bash script which has a layout:
A=C:/Example1/A
B=C:/Example2/B
C=C:/Example3/C
I want to use the same configuration file for my windows batch file. I need to convert the above file into variables which I have done using:
for /f "delims=" %%x in (test.txt) do (set "%%x")
How do I go about converting this file into variables while also converting all the forward slashes into backslashes?
Thanks!
add after your for line,
for /f "delims==" %%x in (q888.txt) do call set "%%x=%%%%x:/=\%%"
or, as a replacement for your existing for,
for /f "tokens=1*delims==" %%x in (q888.txt) do set "%%x=%%y"&call set "%%x=%%%%x:/=\%%"
(I used a file called q888.txt for testing)
The first smply executes a substitution, using a parsing trick. The second combines the set and substitution into one cascaded command by tokenising on = into %%x and %%y
This could be done with the following batch code:
#echo off
if not exist "test.txt" goto :EOF
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "usebackq tokens=1* delims==" %%I in ("test.txt") do (
if not "%%~J" == "" (
set "Value=%%~J"
set "Value=!Value:/=\!"
set "_%~n0_%%~I=!Value!"
)
)
echo The variables set from file are:
echo/
set "_%~n0_"
echo/
pause
endlocal
The batch file first checks if the file to process exists in current directory at all. The batch file processing is exited with a jump to predefined label EOF (end of file, requires enabled extensions which are enabled by default) in case of the file test.txt does not exist at all.
Next the file is read line by line with skipping empty lines and lines starting with a semicolon by command FOR which splits each line up into two strings.
The first string left of first equal sign is assigned to loop variable I. Everything right of first equal sign is assigned next loop variable J according to ASCII table.
The IF condition in the loop checks if a value is also defined for a variable. The value is assigned to an environment variable on which a string substitution is executed using delayed expansion to replace all / by \.
Then the modified value is assigned to an environment variable with a name starting with _, the name of the batch file, one more underscore and the string assigned to loop variable I read from the file.
For demonstration the variables with their values are finally output before the local variables are discarded on execution of last command ENDLOCAL.
I strongly recommend not assigning the values read from the file directly to environment variables whose name is completely also read from the file as this makes the batch file easy to manipulate by just modifying the contents of the text file. For example path=C:\Temp in text file would otherwise result in set "Path=C:\Temp" and from this point of batch file execution the running Windows command process would not find anymore any standard executable in directories defined by default in environment variable PATH like %SystemRoot%\System32.
A second variant which incorporates answer posted by Magoo with above batch code:
#echo off
if not exist "test.txt" goto :EOF
setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
for /F "usebackq tokens=1* delims==" %%I in ("test.txt") do if not "%%~J" == "" set "_%~n0_%%~I=%%~J" & call set "_%~n0_%%~I=%%_%~n0_%%~I:/=\%%"
echo The variables set from file are:
echo/
set "_%~n0_"
echo/
pause
endlocal
The advantage of this variant is that delayed expansion is not needed for this solution which makes it possible to correct process also lines from file containing 1 or more exclamation marks on which first variant fails. And it is also a little bit faster, not noticeable faster for a human, but nevertheless a bit faster.
In both batch code blocks _%~n0_ can be replaced by (nearly) anything including also nothing although that is not recommended. Using just an underscore would be also possible as there are no environment variables defined by default by Windows which start with an underscore.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
call /? ... explains %~n0 (name of argument 0 - the batch file name - without path and without file extension).
echo /?
endlocal /?
for /?
goto /?
if /?
pause /?
set /?
setlocal /?
The simplest solution is to let the ~f FOR variable modifier put the full path in canonical form (including conversion of forward slashes to back slashes). I use the DELIMS and TOKENS options to split each line into the variable name and path so that I can apply the ~f to the path. It is important to use tokens=1* instead of tokens=1,2 just in case the path includes a = character.
for /f "delims== tokens=1*" %%A in (test.txt) do (set "%%A=%%~fB")
Note, however, that this strategy only works if your "test.txt" already contains full, absolute paths. If the file contains relative paths, then the ~f modifier will add drive and or folder values from the current directory to turn the relative path into an absolute path.
I have the below code snippet which outputs a variable in to a text file.
%drone% will be a simple text string, and the %counter% is a number which is in a loop to count the iterations.
The echo %drone% !counter! echos the correct values to the screen but in the echo Done: %drone% Files deleted: !tempcounter! >> clearTempFilesonDrones.txt code the !tempcounter! variable is blank when outputted to the file.
I've tried to set it to a temp variable and use %tempvariable%, but that didn't work. I also tried like "!counter!" incase it would think that that's a string instead of just a number, but didn't work either.
echo %drone% %counter%
endlocal
echo Done: %drone% Files deleted: !counter! >> clearTempFilesonDrones.txt
Any ideas?
I can't copy the entire code onto a pastebin or the like as blocked in current client, so just uploaded an extract.
your endlocal ends the delayed expansion, meaning you can't use ! variables afterwards anymore. try simply using
echo Done: %drone% Files deleted: %counter% >> clearTempFilesonDrones.txt
Note that variables which are first accessed with !temp! in a code block can be accessed with regular %temp% afterwards
If that doesn't work I suggest trying to remove the endlocal, or placing it in a line below the last echo.
It looks like behavior of setlocal without or with 1 or 2 of the optional 4 parameters and endlocal is not really known by you.
See the answers on
change directory command cd ..not working in batch file after npm install
Why is my cd %myVar% being ignored?
Echoing a URL in Batch
which describe in detail with examples what setlocal and endlocal really do.
The current values of the environment variables drone and counter must be passed from current environment variables table deleted by endlocal to the restored environment variables table active before setlocal and active again after endlocal.
This can be done as follows:
echo %drone% %counter%
endlocal & set "drone=%drone%" & set "counter=%counter%"
echo Done: %drone% Files deleted: %counter% >>clearTempFilesonDrones.txt
The entire command line with the command endlocal and the two set commands is first preprocessed by Windows command processor with the values of current environment variable resulting in replacing the variable references by their current values. So the line is after preprocessing:
endlocal & set "drone=value of drone variable" & set "counter=counter value"
Now first endlocal is executed which discards the current environment variables table and restores previous environment variables table. Then then two set commands are executed which assigns the two strings to the two variables in now active environment variables table.
For an explanation of operator & see the answer on Single line with multiple commands using Windows batch file.
Further I suggest to open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
endlocal /?
set /?
setlocal /?
The built-in help is not so detailed as the referenced answers, but should be nevertheless read.