How can I echo Bla"la (containing one quote) in a text file?

[Andi]

Hi
I am shell scripting in Windows Server 2003/xp.
A user of my script could set a path into the variable am_path wrongly.
For example

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set am_path=some"wrongPathwithQuotes

So I need to check what he set later from within the script.
In order to do that I need to put the contents of am_path into a text file for find does not work in a search containing quotes to begin with and findstr also needs a text file.
However, echoing variable contents into a text file only works if that variable contains an even number of quotes.
This will not work for example with am_path as set above but will rather echo on the console:

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echo %am_path%>c:\tmp\path2BeChecked.txt

Would somebody know how I could put the contents of a variable that contains an uneven number of quotes into a text file?

Thank you.
Andreas

[aGerman]

In order to do that I need to put the contents of am_path into a text file for find does not work in a search containing quotes to begin with and findstr also needs a text file.

This isn't true. You could pipe e.g. an echo output directly to FIND or FINDSTR using the | sign.

However, echoing variable contents into a text file only works if that variable contains an even number of quotes.
This will not work for example with am_path as set above but will rather echo on the console:

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echo %am_path%>c:\tmp\path2BeChecked.txt

Would somebody know how I could put the contents of a variable that contains an uneven number of quotes into a text file?

Write the line in an opposite style.

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>c:\tmp\path2BeChecked.txt echo %am_path%

Regards
aGerman

[Andi]

Hi aGerman,

thanx a lot, that was exactly the information I was missing.

Sincerely