So a carat is a windows escape char in a shell? Or is this something specific to a pipe?
Thanks! jlc From: mikeMitchell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: More batch help for /f %%a in ('vshadow -q ^| grep "SNAPSHOT ID" ^| cut -f 5 -d " " ') do echo %%a Pipes in the inside bit need to be escaped with hat... ^| The command line within the parens should be surrounded by single quote. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:15 am To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: More batch help Hey Guys, What's the trick for getting a long command executed in a for loop: FOR /F %%a IN (vshadow -q | grep "SNAPSHOT ID" | cut -f 5 -d " ") DO ( echo %%a ) As an example? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
