Hi guys I'm very new to batch programming and am unable to find this:
i have managed to get a file location from a text file into a variable. However the file name is in the format c\:\\program files\\locationofprogram\\program.

I want to get this such that i can remove the extra '\' characters from this path, ie read c:\program files\locationofprogram\program. How do i do this in batch?? please help i'm going nuts trying to figure this one out

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1,3,4,5,7 delims=\" %%a in (test.txt) do (
echo %%a:\%%b\%%c\%%d
)

"Computer security." — Oxymoron

thanks for the response - works great
but now i'm wondering, if there is a way to automate this? ie. location could be longer/shorter with a different hierarchical structure...so hardcoding the formatting is kind of risky - is there a way to remove '\' with some kind of loop that compares the string charcter by character and concatenates?

any help is appreciated - thanks

set foo=c\:\\program files\\locationofprogram\\program
set foo=%foo:\:=:%
set foo=%foo:\\=\%
@echo %foo%

though you can spend your time filtering out the extra slashes, my opinion is to tackle the problem at the source. Are you able to NOT generate file paths like that to the text file?

I'm with 3 & 4.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

unfortunately - no
its written to in a read-only file by sepereate module..
but thanks for the responses

~newtechie

I want to remove '$' from a $ variable.

I create a script, a.sh as below:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
a=`echo $1 | cut -d"\$" -f1`
b=`echo $1 | cut -d"\$" -f2`
echo $a$b

However, this script does not work as I expect

For example when I run the script as below:

a.sh abc$def.

The script displays 'abcabc' instead of 'abcdef'

I suggest starting a new thread. You will get more responses.

"Computer security." — Oxymoron

Beside the obvious that shell scripts have little or nothing in common with winders.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

who knows he might be using cygwin or SFU...

@OP, $ is sensitive to the shell, when you pass the variable, escape it like this abc\$def.
should do the trick.