I would like to save the text Hello>World in a variable in a Windows command prompt, and then echo it.

So, I run the following commands, and I am properly escaping the text by using the caret ^>:

set i=Hello^>World
echo %i%

However, the echo statement creates a text file called World in the current directory, and nothing echoes to the command prompt.

How do I properly echo the variable i without creating a file?

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I would like to save the text Hello>World in a variable in a Windows command prompt, and then echo it.

So, I run the following commands, and I am properly escaping the text by using the caret ^>:

set i=Hello^>World
echo %i%

However, the echo statement creates a text file called World in the current directory, and nothing echoes to the command prompt.

How do I properly echo the variable i without creating a file?

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• windows
• command-line
• echo

1 Answer 1

C:\>set i=Hello^^^>World

C:\>echo %i%
Hello>World

The first caret escapes the second caret, and the third caret escapes the redirect. Then when you substitute the variable, the redirect is still escaped.