What ^|FIND means?

[tinfanide]

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@echo off

Setlocal
For /F %%a in ('wmic baseboard GET SerialNumber /value^|find "SerialNumber"') do Set %%a
@echo %Computername% - %SerialNumber%
endlocal

PAUSE

I've looked up in CMD

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SET /?
: | (OR)
: ^ (XOR)

But what if they come together? And how does it interact with FIND?

[foxidrive]

^ is also the escape character in batch files.

echo ^&

The above will echo an & to the console. It is necessary to escape some certain poison characters in certain places so you can echo them; and in the case of a for next loop with a command, when using a redirection character or pipe or ampersand, then it is necessary to escape them in the command tail.

This will work in a batch file

for /f %%a in (' echo aaa ^| find "a" ') do echo %%a


but this will fail, even though the syntax of the command inside the quotes is vaild for normal parts of a batch file.

for /f %%a in (' echo aaa | find "a" ') do echo %%a


I hope that's cleared it up a bit.

[tinfanide]

^ is also the escape character in batch files.

echo ^&

The above will echo an & to the console. It is necessary to escape some certain poison characters in certain places so you can echo them; and in the case of a for next loop with a command, when using a redirection character or pipe or ampersand, then it is necessary to escape them in the command tail.

This will work in a batch file

for /f %%a in (' echo aaa ^| find "a" ') do echo %%a


but this will fail, even though the syntax of the command inside the quotes is vaild for normal parts of a batch file.

for /f %%a in (' echo aaa | find "a" ') do echo %%a


I hope that's cleared it up a bit.

Yes, it's clear to me now. Thanks for your quick reply.