08-27-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by
LMHmedchem
I may be able to use "setlocal", but when the bat file finishes, it will close and I'm guessing that the temp assignment to the path will go with it. This means that I would need to have the bat file stay open until I close it intentionally when I am done.
As it is: no. Unix shells work like that, but DOS doesn't. In fact, when you set a variable in a DOS batch file its value stays until you start the
COMMAND.COM (or whatever replacement you use) anew. This is the reason why you can set the PATH variable in
AUTOEXEC.BAT and have that change be persistent.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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