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Re: date.exe problem
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 05:37:49 -0700
- Subject: Re: date.exe problem
- References: <90f6e8270505140524314bf23b@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> set hour=c:\cygwin\bin\date.exe
>
> if I then do:
>
> %date% +%H-%M
>
> that works as expected (interactively). But, if I use that in the
> batch file, then it gives me "H" instead of the hour. It ommits the
> '%' , does not interpret it and does not work. I am not sure if this
> is a dos problem (my understanding of this is not very good, I am
> afraid).
In the windows command interpreter, % is a metacharacter. You have to
escape it (as %%) if you want a literal %.
This has nothing to do with date.exe or Cygwin.
Brian
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