Who created that file !

[Ed Dyreen]

I was playing with some macro commands . As you can see I forgot some escapes here und there .
You would expect this to crash but no it creates a file named FindStr.EXE of 0kbs in the active directory instead . But why?

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if defined StdOut ( %\n2%^

     echo.^^^!StdIn^^^! |^>nul FindStr.EXE /i /c:"^!StdOut^!" &&( %\n2%^

          set /a Error = 0 %\n2%^

     ) ||set /a Error = 1 %\n2%^

) else set /a Error = 1 %\n2%^

Are you sure you wan't to execute Findstr.EXE ? What the heck

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