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XY Problem How so? Ignore this post if your are not interested to know how others may possibly interpret your post and how it is difficult to diagnose the problem and suggest solutions based on the kind of information that is provided. In the next post I will try to diagnose and suggest a solution ...

The more I look at this topic the more it becomes clear to me that it is an instance of XY Problem. Maybe even a nested one.

Percent variable expansion will take place before execution of the code and it occurs only once within a block of code. So when your code is executing, %outfile% variable is already expanded to nothing (or to whatever it has been defined before that block of code). Use delayed variable expansion to ...

@penpen by saing ..... if Command Extensions are disabled bye default. It is rare and uncommon but still a possibility. I mean when Command Extensions are disabled at registry level. Of course Command Extensions can be enabled from within batch file with setlocal but that would enable Extensions for...

In for /f loop - You only must create a first command token with no space for /F usebackq %%L in (`if 1 equ 1 "%PROG%myprog.exe" ...... %%F`) do set %%L Phil That's OK for demonstrating the concept but it should noted that using it as a general method will lead to failure if Command Extensions are ...

Adding to jeb's solution: for /F usebackq %%L in (`@"%PROG%myprog.exe" ...... %%F`) do set %%L The trick with CALL and at-sign(@) here is to prevent the first character that comes after /c switch to be a double quote(") so cmd will not enter command line quote processing phase. With any of the follo...

Use this from for /F usebackq %%L in (`^""%PROG%myprog.exe" ...... %%F^"`) do set %%L for /F internally runs cmd /c <FOR /F command> cmd will preserve quotes only when invoked without /S switch which is the case, and if there are exactly just two quote characters on the command line which is also th...

Funnily enough this doesn't work C:\>start cmd /k echo abc "&" echo def even though the argsv come out the same C:\>w cmd /k echo abc "&" echo def argv[0] = w argv[1] = cmd argv[2] = /k argv[3] = echo argv[4] = abc argv[5] = & argv[6] = echo argv[7] = def Though the command line is different for th...

One thing I'm still unsatisfied with is the macro (re)definition of "return", it's possible to override an existing macro. It would be better to take another name or even better to store the macro definition and restore it later Why not use /EXENAME switch. set "MyDosKeyNameSpace=SomeUniqueString" ...

For the search and replace part you can use JREPL.BAT I would recommend to first study and learn how to use JREPL.BAT. After you get familiar with it's usage and syntax then you can think about how to iterate through your php and keywrods files to perform the sequential search and replace on all you...

@jfl, There are numerous resources on the net for start https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/ten-process-injection-techniques-technical-survey-common-and-trending-process https://github.com/secrary/InjectProc http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/pavely/2017/03/14/injecting-a-dll-without-a-remote-thre...

The mouse pointer is hidden probably because your are using the mouse driver that is designed for your touch screen. So it logically hide the pointer for a touch screen. Maybe you can force it to display the pointer by some command line switch or manipulating the it's INI files. Or better try anothe...

Besides of problems that may arise as a result of assumptions about unicode encoding which has been addressed by penpen, I can think of some other problems which will prevent the usage of this method as a general purpose string length routine. This method will fail if 1. LineFeed character is presen...

Another way would be for the cpp program to generate a temporary batch file with the set commands. The OP is already aware of temp file technique, the question was about possibility of a method to do the assignment directly with custom external program, so using a temporary batch file instead of te...

You know that & is command splitter but forgot that this line start cmd /k (echo abc & echo def) will be parsed and splitted in to two separate commands before the second cmd instance have a chance to grab it as command line. your line will basically will be converted to this before execution start ...