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Ignore percent sign in batch file
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Closed 2 years ago.
Hi Guys having a really hard time getting an environmental variable piped to clip.exe, in a regular command prompt it works but once in batch file it fails. I have tried escaping with double %% and a few other tricks. Nothing seems to work.
I am trying to pipe the output of the citrix environmental variable %clientname% to clip.exe like the following:
#echo off
echo %clientname% | clip
Just use the ^ sign to escape the % char in command line:
C:\> echo ^%clientname^%
But you need to use the % sign to escape a % symbol in a batch file:
#echo %%clientname%%
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I had just showed a friend of mine some of the cool stuff you can do with the command prompt and batch code and she gotten really interested and wants to try it out on her own when she has the time. Shortly after that, I had gotten the idea of making a nice, well polished batch file that will not only demonstrate, but also display display the code in the code on the command window with out the command window executing the commands.
Example: the code in question, %date%, will display the current date when I have the code of echo %date% on the line. I would like to have %date% to be displayed like normal text.
What code am I missing to have %date% and %time% and any other batch code be displayed as normal text so the person having fun with the file can see the code without having to cipher through the code to find the code I am wanting them to learn?
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I have a feeling this question might have been answer through a different thread and if so, fee free to link me to it. Thank you!
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I want to know how to write a Window command line with redirection operators into a text file?
My command line to write into file text file is:
echo (name / file1.txt >> file2.txt) >> filetot.txt
The part in parentheses is the part I want to write into file filetot.txt.
But unfortunately it doesn't record anything after the first >>.
How does this do for you?
REM rest of your code
(name / file1.txt >> file2.txt) >> filetot.txt
echo (name / file1.txt >> file2.txt) >> filetot.txt
We are still issuing your command, but also echoing which command we are issuing to the filetot.txt file you specified.
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using batch echo with special characters
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I have a BATCH script that will create a text file that will later be executed by another program based on user input. I want to be able to echo Label>start to a text file. Unfortunately, CMD reads it as a command (because of the > character) and does not echo properly. If I use quotation marks they echo to the .txt file
"Level>start"
and so it cannot be executed. I really need some help with this.
echo Level^>start
seems to work.
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How do I escape ampersands in batch files?
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Closed 4 years ago.
If you have maybe a code like this
set "CONTENT_LENGTH=24" & echo first=1&second=2&third=3
I want the echo to echo with the &
Two ways you could do this.
Escape characters
In Windows batch files it seems to be the ^ character, so you'd just stick a ^ before your special character.
This page seems to cover the exceptions: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/escapechars.php
On OS X/Linux, use backslashes: echo three\&four
Wrap the parameter phrase in quotes.
echo "three&four"
This should work on either system.
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How can I pass arguments to a batch file?
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I want to create a cmd command by writing a batchfile and put it into "system32" to call it in the cmd console by its name. Is there a way to expect parameters in the batch file:
Write in cmd:
fake-command Test
And then work with the string "Test" in the batch file?
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