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Not on my version of XP ... I also ran your code from this thread and it also crash http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2851 Build 2600 xp sp2 Interesting... For the latter, do you mean a literal "crash", and was it with the "call :exec" (vs. "call :exec-fa...

' I still like jeb's way, it produce same result @echo off &setlocal enableDelayedExpansion set "var=hallo > aa ^| bb ^^< cc ^^^& dd" echo.!"!!var!!"! Thanks for the pointer, though, unless I am missing something, so does "echo !var!" alone in this snippet. And...

This may well be an xp.sp3 quirk, haven't tried it elsewhere, yet. But it's quite odd. Here's the code... @echo off setlocal disableDelayedExpansion echo. echo * %~n0 { %1 } set /a rearg1 = %1 - 1 if %rearg1% leq 0 goto :done echo * before call :exec %0 %rearg1% call :exec-fail %%0 rearg1 echo ..aft...

But it is not possible to build a string with special characters and make a call, the expansion have to be on the last call level. ... Because all carets are doubled by a call, so the parser see ... If the char "&" or "|" is recognized in a call the complete cmd will be canc...

If the exe reads the password off its "standard input stream" you may try "echo yourpassword| yourexe". However, if it's reading it directly off the interactive console, or if it's a GUI app with no console whatsoever, that won't work. And, just saying, but I wouldn't hardcode a ...

Yet another variation on the same theme... The code below collects all parameters in a temp file, with the stop condition based on the size of the file. Then, it reads the file back in one shot. EDIT: code below has changed vs. the one posted earlier today. At the time I edited, there were no follow...

Now I understand why jeb had that # in his REM statement, to protect against /? I've edited my previous post to compensate. Pretty sure I've seen this noted before, though I can't find a reference handy now... One other corner case is that the 'for' loop would save the incorrect %1 when passed %a o...

The font makes no difference, except look different on the screen and in screen snapshots (or, worse, look the same for different binary characters depending on the active codepage). Whenever in doubt, check the actual file contents with your favorite binary viewer. I suppose it looks a bit like it...

' I think my code works for everyone ( just guessing ) if I simply use ... If not please let me know, thanks for the quick responses I'd guess it works provided it's you who save/publish/send the batch file. However, if people copy the code from your post and save the batch file themselves, they'd ...

It might not make any difference, but which font are you using, and do you also get the display that picture shows when you paste it in the command prompt? The font makes no difference, except look different on the screen and in screen snapshots (or, worse, look the same for different binary charac...

' Taripo reported codepage problems in this topic [...] My PIPE.COM program is only 69 bytes in size, so it is a very good replacement of FINDSTR to be used in these cases. If you are worried about where to get my program from, here it is; just copy the 69 bytes below to a file named PIPE.COM and i...

Here is a clean looking script that safely loads all of the arguments into an arg "array" using the REM trick. Not sure I fully follow the part about exiting and reentrying the doubly redirected () block, yet, but it looks as if it's internally equivalent to individual per-argument redire...

It's still not exactly foolproof Example argument (jeb): one^&two"&three simplified: "& or "&" Thanks for that. Somehow thought it couldn't be that easy And it takes down any following parameters as well. Now, I don't think that'd be much of a problem in my parti...

I'm not sure whether this would work in each case: Nice! and appears to be doing just what I was looking for, thank you. Side comment: it's even kind of obvious in hindsight now, isn't it Guess I didn't think at it becaused of the reflex don't set "x=%1" when %1 may contain quotes or unqu...

Don't think there is much you could do about a string not being closed quoted correctly. If you just have a set of empty quotes then you can check to see if it is empty. So given your example of "" a --- I should have made it more clear that the "---" was part of my comment, not...