SET a:b=c won't work

[ghostmachine4]

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C:\test>more words
[###]
crazy

C:\test>more template
[###] little dog walked on a street and saw [###] little cats
the [###] little dog started
chasing the [###] little cats

C:\test>gawk "FNR==NR&&!/\[/{s=$1;next}{gsub(/\[###\]/,s)}1"  words template

crazy little dog walked on a street and saw crazy little cats
the crazy little dog started
chasing the crazy little cats

[aGerman]

Using native batch you have to escape all special characters, like ^<>|&.
I hope this will work for you:

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@echo off &setlocal
set /p "replace="<"words.txt"
for /f "usebackq skip=1 delims=" %%a in ("words.txt") do (
  >"%%a.txt" type nul
  set "word=%%a"
  call :proc
)

pause
goto :eof

:proc
for /f "delims=: tokens=1*" %%a in ('findstr /n "^" "template.txt"') do (
  set "line=%%b"
  call :repl
)
goto :eof

:repl
if not defined line (
  >>"%word%.txt" echo.
  goto :eof
)
set "line=%line:^=^^%"
set "line=%line:<=^<%"
set "line=%line:>=^>%"
set "line=%line:|=^|%"
set "line=%line:&=^&%"

>>"%word%.txt" call echo.%%line:%replace%=%word%%%
goto :eof

[EDIT: Double code removed /]


Regards
aGerman