SET enviroment variables

stevenmu

I'm trying to set enviroment variables and use them as directory names in a batch file. For some reason they don't seem to set correctly, or maybe I'm just not reading the values back correctly. I'm using windows 2000 with administrator rights. As an example if I use a CMD prompt to enter

"SET folname = test"

and then type

"SET folname"

I get

"folname = test"

which is correct but if I then

"ECHO %folname%"

I just get

"%folname%"

and if I try to use %folname% in a batch file it just seems to expand to blank as if it wasn't defined (even though I SET it earlier in the batch file).

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, anybody know what it is ?

Khannie

It's the spaces.....

set folname=test
echo %folname%
prints:
test

Enjoy

stevenmu

That did it thanks, I knew I was missing something simple.

In case anyone's interested I was just doing a batchfile to create a directory named for the current date, commands are below.


@echo off
set d=%date:~4,2%
set m=%date:~7,2%
set y=%date:~10%
set dmy=%d%%m%%y%
mkdir %dmy%

Dingatron

Thanks for printing that. Could come in very handy. On this note does anyone know of any decent web sites for teaching this stuff? I would like to be able to learn how to script with a slant towards unix scripting.

fragile

Google is your friend..

DOC Batch Programming

For a list of new commands that have been added in 2000/XP just look at the Windows Help under Reference

Linux shell scripting tutorial

Advanced Bash-scripting guide

Dingatron

Thanks Fragile. I could have googled I supose but I knew that in asking it would narrow down the search too only the decent sites. I'll have a look at your links and karma to you. :-)