Question

I have a file.bat which I run via command-line in Windows.

It need to read some characters like % and ^ for the password.

When I run the script, I see that the shell does not read these characters.

What can I do to fix this??

Answer 1

You need to escape these with a ^.

To escape ^ you use another ^^

As jeb correctly pointed out you can’t escape %‘s on the command line, but when setting variables with them in the variable string it seems to accept them.

set p=hello%
echo %p%
hello%