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Reputation: 2017

Anaconda activate batch file character escaping doesn't work like windows command line

I'm trying to set a secret key in my activate file for an anaconda environment on windows. The secret key contains special characters that need to be escaped (eg % and ^). Let's say the secret key literal is foobar%foo^bar%foo. On the command line I can run:

SET SECRET_KEY=foobar^%foo^^^^bar^%foo
ECHO %SECRET_KEY%

And it returns foobar%foo^bar%foo

However in \etc\activate.d\env_vars.bat as described here I have the same line SET SECRET_KEY=foobar^%foo^^^^bar^%foo, I activate the environment and run the ECHO %SECRET_KEY% command and I get foobarfoo returned.

Does anyone know how to escape the characters properly to get the correct string set in the environmental variable?

Windows 7 64-bit, Python 2.7, Conda 4.4.10

Upvotes: 1

Views: 709

Answers (1)

amanb
amanb

Reputation: 5473

In the command line, the % sign can be escaped by %%, the ^ character with ^^ and then enclosing the string in "" ensures there are no special characters un-escaped. So, for foobar%foo^bar%foo, the secret_key value should be escaped like:

set SECRET_KEY="foobar%%foo^^^^bar%%foo"

More on this here

Upvotes: 2

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