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There are the following three statements:

@echo [%windir%]
@echo [%%windir%%]
@echo [%%windir%%]|sort

The result output by the first statement is: [C:\WINDOWS]
The result output by the second statement is: [%windir%]
The result output by the third statement is: [C:\WINDOWS]

I want the third statement to also output: [%windir%]. How should I modify it?
(In my actual use, the piped output is not sort, but a third-party tool tr.exe)

Thanks, everyone.
The output result in reply #2 is also [%C:\WINDOWS%], not what I want.
Although the result in reply #3 is correct, it doesn't go through a pipe.
There are really a lot of methods in reply #4; I'll have to try them slowly.

Do you need to make it that complicated?

echo [^%windir^%]

Completely works

Originally posted by zcnvnv at 2008-3-12 10:31 AM:
Do you need to make it that complicated?

echo

Completely works

What the OP wants is that it must go through sort.

Not simply just to display %windir%