How to safely print variable's value without quotes?

[AnrDaemon]

SET "_TITLE=yy && xx"
ECHO %[_TITLE]

Anybody have sane ideas?

 

[vefatica]

If it were in my environment it would be a file name and it would have to be quoted to use it. I would

v:\> echo "%_title"
"yy && xx"

SETDOS will help if you want to echo arbitrary text.

v:\> setdos /x-5

v:\> echo %_title
yy && xx

v:\> setdos /x+5

 

[Charles Dye]

Use the SET command:

set _title

 

[AnrDaemon]

That's a hack, which only works if all I need to print is the value of a variable on a separate line and nothing else.

 

[Charles Dye]

That's a hack, which only works if all I need to print is the value of a variable on a separate line and nothing else.

Not at all. It's a documented feature!

 

[AnrDaemon]

Ok, back to /bin/bash then.

 

[vefatica]

How do you do this in bash?

v:\> do x in /c abcdef ( echo %x )
a
b
c
d
e
f

 

[AnrDaemon]

I don't see a use case for this to begin with.
But there's multiple ways to achieve same effect in POSIX system.
Most portable is to use sed to insert EOL's between characters. Something like
echo "$str" | sed -e "s/./\\0\\n/g;"

 

[vefatica]

I don't see a use case for this to begin with.
But there's multiple ways to achieve same effect in POSIX system.
Most portable is to use sed to insert EOL's between characters. Something like
echo "$str" | sed -e "s/./\\0\\n/g;"

It's more useful than echoing "yy && xx" and your suggestion is doesn't do much for me. What's $str?

 

[AnrDaemon]

It's more useful than echoing "yy && xx" and your suggestion is doesn't do much for me.

I was echoing arbitrary string. But stumbled upon a file name containing "&", which break the script I used.

What's $str?

An arbitrary string you want to split by characters.