Echo an echo command to batch file using CLI

[SDee]

I am trying to write the following batch file directly from the command line,
however am facing a problem with the following line.

The output within my batch file should be a line as follows:
echo D | xcopy %USERPROFILE%\Desktop C:\%username% /E /Y /H

However I cannot write it on my TEST.bat file, what am trying is from the CLI:
echo echo D | xcopy %USERPROFILE%\Desktop C:\%username% /E /Y /H > TEST.bat



Any ideas?

[foxidrive]

I will merely comment that your code has other potential issues than the one that is clear.

Knowing what you are doing, and why the cmd prompt is being used, will very often change the answer

But on having a second look: this code does what your code was supposed to be doing:

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echo xcopy "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\*.*" "C:\%username%\" /E /Y /H > TEST.bat

To keep the literal text as you have shown it:

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echo xcopy "%%USERPROFILE%%\Desktop\*.*" "C:\%%username%%\" /E /Y /H > TEST.bat

[SDee]

The idea is having an echo command to respond to the prompt to avoid user interaction.
This will still prompt for a confirmation, however if I use
echo D | xxxxxxxx

This will automatically respond with a D, so I basically need it to be present in the TEST.bat am creating.

[Squashman]

The idea is having an echo command to respond to the prompt to avoid user interaction.

Did you test Foxidrive's code? I bet it does not prompt for user interaction.

[SDee]

Well it is not only about this code, am looking for something more generic, so that was just an example.
Regardless of the function, I want this string to be present in a newly created batch file named TEST.bat, but using CLI
(Assuming Command.exe will require a Y to run)

echo Y | Command.exe

This works with no problems at all if I manually typed it to the batch file, however using CLI strips off the first part

INPUT TO CLI: echo echo Y | Command.exe > Test.bat
OUTPUT IN BAT: Command.exe

[aGerman]

The rules for a literal output of these characters are
% => %%
^ => ^^
< => ^<
> => ^>
| => ^|
& => ^&

And if delayed expansion is enabled
! => ^^!

Regards
aGerman

[foxidrive]

Well it is not only about this code, am looking for something more generic, so that was just an example.

If you want to eat steak and chips for dinner, and you ask for Brussells sprouts and spinach, what do you think you will get?

That applies to programming also.

[pieh-ejdsch]

Hi,

you're on CLI and make some tests
in your file you want anything like the successful commands in a batchfile to write in
take

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set /p Line=

use arrow key to find command and enter

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>test.cmd cmd /v /c echo !Line!
type test.cmd

your CLI-macro

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set "file=test.cmd"
set "Write=set /p Line=line 2 %FILE%: &>>%File% cmd /v /c echo !Line!& find /n /v "" %File%"
%Write%

Phil