thx - works perfect. could you explain why following statement did not work for /F %%f in (searchpattern.txt) do (call :PROCESS4 %%f ) GOTO END4 :PROCESS4 set var4=%1 goto end4 :end4 its basicly the same. i understand that without a definde "tokens" it will take the whole line put it in the var4 and i could work with it. but why it do not work please bring light in …

@echo off setlocal enableDelayedExpansion echo delayed expansion activated !;delayed expansion commented line echo end of the demonstration Comment at the end of line. For comments at the end of line you can again use rem and :: combined with &: echo --- &:: comment (should not be the last line in the script) echo --- &rem comment

4. Change directory and CALL batch file with one command line. This command line changes the directory and on success calls the batch file. cd /D "F:\- Big Packets -\kitterengine\Common" && call Template.bat The difference to third solution is the return to current batch script on exiting processing of Template.bat. 5.

%0 is the program name as it was called. %1 is the first command line parameter %2 is the second command line parameter and so on till %9. parameters passed in on the commandline must be alphanumeric characters and delimited by spaces. Since %0 is the program name as it was called, in DOS %0 will be empty for AUTOEXEC.BAT if started at boot time.

Sep 16, 2008 · The empty line is important for the success. This works only with delayed expansion, else the rest of the line is ignored after the line feed. It works, because the caret at the line end ignores the next line feed and escapes the next character, even if the next character is also a line feed (carriage returns are always ignored in this phase).

One important case is placing on the same line commands that manipulate variables. @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set count=0 set "count=1" & echo %count% !count! 0 1 As you see in the above example, when commands using variables are placed on the same line, you must use delayed expansion to update your variable values.

That means that there is no known method for outputting a blank line from cmd.exe that is guaranteed to work (or work efficiently) in all situations. With that in mind, here is a discussion of methods that have been recommended for outputting a blank line from cmd.exe. All recommendations are based on variations of the echo command.

Oct 3, 2008 · You pass the script you want to step through the this script as the first argument. It copies the file line by line to a temporary file and adds a pause statement after each line. Afterwards it deletes the temporary script.

Sep 25, 2008 · If you need it in a single line, use the &. For example, echo Line 1 & echo. & echo line 3 would output as: Line 1 line 3 Now, say you want something a bit fancier, ... set n=^&echo. echo hello %n% world Outputs. hello world Then just throw in a %n% whenever you want a new line in an echo statement.

That's needed from the command line. If you're doing this inside a script, you can just use setlocal: @setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion @echo off echo !time! & ping 127.0.0.1 >nul: & echo !time! endlocal