Batch file quotes inside quotes

Asked 12 years, 11 months ago. Active 2 months ago. Viewed k times. David G 6, 4 4 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. GetFree GetFree Oh my - you're taking the first steps into the truly maddening areas of cmd scripting. Good luck - you're going to need it. See stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. RuskoGuyachev RuskoGuyachev 6 6 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. Fowl but then the doublequotes get echoed too.

Steen Craig Rorrer Craig Rorrer 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. This is awesome. Did not know about this. Very useful, though this answer deserves the credit stackoverflow. How is your answer any different than RuskoGuyachev's that was written one year earlier? Much clearer "The quotes will not be included in the variable value. If you use delayed expansion with string substitution, you get the value of the variable without the quotes: echo!

Patrick Cuff Patrick Cuff Excellent answer. Binary Worrier; yeah, batch files tend to do that ; — Patrick Cuff. Search related threads.

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Dive in and help somebody! If your answer is "no," welcome to our fun little world! We'd recommend that you first head over to the Script Center, get your feet wet, and then come back to either ask or answer questions. We can't be everywhere at once we know—shocking! The Microsoft Scripting Guys 0 1. If a single parameter contains spaces, you can still pass it as one item by surrounding in "quotes" - this works well for long filenames.

If a parameter is used to supply a filename like this:. In the FIND comand, the " quote can be escaped by doubling it to "". This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Represents a replaceable parameter. Specifies one or more files, directories, or text strings, or a range of values on which to run the command.

The parentheses are required. Specifies the command that you want to carry out on each file, directory, or text string, or on the range of values included in set. Specifies which tokens from each line are to be passed to the for loop for each iteration.