DOS Command %

[Nikki]

How is this command used?

[Salmon Trout]

The percent sign (%) is not a "command".

[Nikki]

Is it used in DOS as a modifier?

[Fleexy]

I think they go around variables, like this:

Code: [Select]

@echo off
set %lol% = 1337
echo %lol%
I do not care if I did the set wrong.

[Salmon Trout]

I do not care if I did the set wrong.

Then you are a fool.

Percent signs are used to indicate expandable tokens to the command interpreter such as..

Variables

set var=rasputin
echo %var%

Metavariables used by FOR

FOR %%A in (A B C D) DO echo %%A

Passed parameters

@echo off
echo parameter 1 is %1
echo parameter 2 is %2
echo all parameters %*

The name of a batch script

echo this batch file is %0