I have a bat file that asks for user id and password then executes FTP reading the values in a text file. How do you pass the id and password variables to the text file? bat file: Echo Off CLS set /p userid=Enter Your Mainframe User ID : echo hP1X500P[PZBBBfh#b##fXf-V@`$fPf]f3/f1/5++u5>in.com set /p password=Enter Your Mainframe Password:<nul for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('in.com') do (set password=%%i) del in.com cls echo %userid% echo %password% ftp -d -n -s:c:\downloads\test.txt mvstest Text file: %userid% %password% put source destination quit

@(echo %userid% echo %password% echo put source destination echo quit)>test.txt ftp -d -s:c:\downloads\test.txt mvstest

The code you provided is building the text file in the bat file. However, the password is displaying on the screen due to the echo and I can't have the password visible. That is why I was trying to pass the id and password to the text file as a variable, but I don't know if that can be done or not. Is there a way to hide the password using the method you provided?

I took off the -d in the ftp step and it stopped showing the password, but is there a better way of hiding the password?