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These suggestions all work, or you can look into the start \wait flag which stops completely until the executed script is completed.

There is a nice command called choice. choice /? for details, it uses error codes from user input to pick from your menu. Start small with a test script with two options. pick it apart. if "%choice%"=="1" goto :Backup_Documents I am lazy to lookup but, maybe dos is saying 1 is a ...

Look into the chdir command for executing the install from the working directory. Otherwise for a permanent change you may want to look into altering the "path" environment variable.

You could create a batch script to auto generate a set style and then have it help remind you what the password is with a date\name\number combo mix. then have it answer your question to which app\computer you are using. Then always remember that the answer it gives you is a key and you add +1 or -1...

Strategicly placed pause commands can help you find when and where the code is at a certain time to catch where an extra loop is occurring. And to validate what a variable contains at a specific time in the script. "how it should be?" Do you have a specific question to an error message or ...

For temporary kick off of a program, I like to use the start command like this... rem rem - start xyz app- chdir /d "path" start app.exe rem This will start you off with the computer looking in that directory for any other files it may need to process. If you want a more permanent change f...

Sorry for the late reply and poor description.
Liviu provided the answer I was looking for.

I want the dos batch code the same to be executed multiple times but yet have a different value for the variable.

set new value
call :duh
set new value
call :duh

It is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

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My goal is finding a way to shorten code. Not necessarilly prove the date is correct. Another example - set streampath=D:\temp\Output.log set streammsg= set streamlog=echo.%streammsg%>>%streampath% set streammsg=Hello world if statement equ true (%streamlog%) else echo.%streammsg% set streammsg=Toda...

I would strongly recommend you create a readme.txt file to document what your script physically does. Input\output. How it functions, what its goal\purpose is, instead of having people dig through files that do not provide this information.

Is there any way to set this line of code to a variable which I can execute multiple times in a program? set date= set var= if true (goto) else (echo.&echo.%date%) ... set date=Monday&%var% set date=Tuesday&%var% ...etc... In this example, what results is the date variable is set to blan...