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Adam Sh
Adam Sh

Reputation: 8577

CMD with % and ^

I have a file.bat which I run via command-line in Windows.

It need to read some characters like % and ^ for the password.

When I run the script, I see that the shell does not read these characters.

What can I do to fix this??

Upvotes: 2

Views: 418

Answers (2)

npocmaka
npocmaka

Reputation: 57272

Try this:

setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set var=something
for /f "delims=" %%a ("!var!") do
(
  endlocal 
  set "result=%%~a"
)

This will let the command prompt read the special characters from var - source

Upvotes: 1

Bali C
Bali C

Reputation: 31241

You need to escape these with a ^.

To escape ^ you use another ^^

As jeb correctly pointed out you can't escape %'s on the command line, but when setting variables with them in the variable string it seems to accept them.

set p=hello%
echo %p%
hello%

Upvotes: 5

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