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Posted: **02 Oct 2018 03:40**

Hi,

I have a drive-mapping script, mapping.cmd, that uses different accounts to map different drives.
Some of the account passwords have special characters in them like % which would be parsed incorrectly if entered straight into the mapping.cmd file.
So I've put the password containing the % character into a separate file, pwd.txt, and this imports in fine when called like this:

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net use p: \\[some path] /user:[some domain]\[some ID] < pwd.txt

So far so good. This works and maps the drive using the password with the % in it, from pwd.txt

Just wondering, if I wanted to map another drive in mapping.cmd, which again uses a special character, if I can in some way list multiple passwords in the same pwd.txt file, rather than the clunkier method of using yet another file, say pwd2.txt, just to hold this other password e.g.

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net use p: \\[some path] /user:[some domain]\[some ID] < pwd.txt
net use q: \\[some path] /user:[some domain]\[some ID] < pwd2.txt

If this is possible - How would I infer the delimit between different passwords in the pwd.txt file and/or refer to them separately in the < pwd.txt part?

Or should I just use the clunky method?

Posted: **04 Oct 2018 19:58**

Can you try this, is only a idea that myabe can work:

Put on a single file the password in order of mapping:

pass.txt

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abcd
efgh

and process.cmd

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(
net use p: \\[some path] /user:[some domain]\[some ID]
net use q: \\[some path] /user:[some domain]\[some ID]
) < pass.txt

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