Question

The command prompt complains that it is unable to recoqnize the command.So i was thinking i needed to escape something that looked like a start of a command to the echo with the ^ character.

This is the exact line:

echo Set link = Shell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath & "\Beta.lnk")>>%temp%\CreateFirefoxBetaShortcut.vbs

I tried:

echo ^Set link = Shell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath & "\Beta.lnk")>>%temp%\CreateFirefoxBetaShortcut.vbs

But no luck.Im puzzled by this because it correctly enters much more complex lines but for some reason it want’s to treat this line as a command not a simple text.
I can post the full .vbs including the other lines if that helps somehow.

Answer 1

The ampersand (“&”) character has a special meaning for “cmd”. Therefore, it must be preceded with a caret (“^”), like this:

echo Set link = Shell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath ^& "\Beta.lnk")>>%temp%\CreateFirefoxBetaShortcut.vbs