Anyone bored and looking for a challenge. Trying to get the DOS echo command to read in something this:
ECHO "^%PROGRAMFILE^%\MY APP"
and actually echo back this:
"%PROGRAMFILES%\MY APP"
The point is that I'm trying to pass a single parm to a util containing a long file name (hence the quotes) and that contains an env var that I DONT WANT TRANSLATED ... just using echo to test permutation ... anybody ?
Also... if you are looking to use the environmental variable its PROGRAMFILES.
ECHO "^%PROGRAMFILES^%\MY APP"
On a side note, I could have sworn that if you echo a variable and it wasn't defined it would just display nothing, but when I am trying it right now on a XP SP2 box, its echoing whatever I type if the var is not defined... I must be getting this confused with something else.
yup - that got it. funny thing is though - ECHO is a "special" proggy and not like many other command line utils ... ECHO echo's the double-quotes literally where-as other utils let the shell strip them off. trying to think of another util to prove this with though.
ROFL You are like our typical noobs... the topic is about ECHO and % and it's not until the 14th reply that the truth be told that it really is about RUNAS!
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I justed used ECHO because its the most handy utility for echo'ing out what the heck you typing to it. Wasn't until later i realized that ECHO treats its command line differently than most every other dos command. Hey - I just got flamed by Les - now I know what its like - it feels kinda good ;0)
