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How can I Escape the "2>nul" in this Command


My Batch will Create another batch that will have the above command in a For command, I use This:
The 2^>nul is already escaped in the For command "i mean here the > sign", how can i re escabe it again so it will be created in the new batch like this:

I was able to get it to work , but there is 1 extra ^ sign and i can't make them go away.
The rule is % and ^ must be multiplied by 4, so it will be %%%% and ^^^^, but when escaping the > sign the last one from the ^^^^ escape the next ^ sign that should be escaping the > , it did it's work and escaped the > sign but also was written in the new file.
I know i can remove the whole "2^>nul" from the command "and that what i did" but was wondering how this thing can be escaped ... any idea

Hi abc0502,

you should use three carets.



The first caret escapes the second, the third caret escapes the greater sign.

jeb

Hi,

@Echo OFF
(
Echo.@Echo OFF
Echo.SETLOCAL
Echo.FOR /F "tokens=2" %%%%a IN ^('TASKLIST /nh /fi "imagename eq cmd.exe" 2^^^>nul'^) DO SET Mpid=%%%%a
Echo.Echo %%Mpid%%
Echo.ENDLOCAL
Echo.Pause
)>"new.bat"

Above code will write be code in "new.bat" file as you want.

@Echo OFF
SETLOCAL
FOR /F "tokens=2" %%a IN ('TASKLIST /nh /fi "imagename eq cmd.exe" 2^>nul') DO SET Mpid=%%a
Echo %Mpid%
ENDLOCAL
Pause

Can you please tell me more clear the last point

"I was able to get it to work , but there is 1 extra ^ sign and i can't make them go away.
The rule is % and ^ must be multiplied by 4, so it will be %%%% and ^^^^, but when escaping the > sign the last one from the ^^^^ escape the next ^ sign that should be escaping the > , it did it's work and escaped the > sign but also was written in the new file. "

Hi abc0502,

Echo.FOR /F "tokens=2" %%%%a IN ^('TASKLIST /nh /fi "imagename eq cmd.exe" 2^^^>nul'^) DO SET Mpid=%%%%a

There is no rule of four ^ or four % for every special character to be printed we need 1 ^ before the special character here for > this to be printed we need ^> and for ^ we need 1 more so in total ^^^ these are enough to display the answer as you like

@jeb, thanks alot, i didn't know it was that easy
thanks again.

@suresh_knv, thanks, i now realized that

@shirulkar,
well, it's was just an explaination to what i thought is happening,
It's not that important, but the important thing here is how you can escape characters/signs like this " ^ % | & ( ) < > in your code when needed.