setx problems
Hi I'm trying to use setx to change an environment variable, it’s acting up when I try to assign a path with space to the Environment Variable (I had the “†around the value but it’s still not working)
Here is the command I'm using
setx MYCDO "d:\My CDOs\" -m
But by doing this it sets the variable as a user environment variable like this,
d:\My CDOs" -m
I've looked at a few manuals online but I can't seem to get it to work,
http://www.amirkamal.com/tools/setx_d.htm
When you take away the backslash it works fine, can anyone help?
Here is the command I'm using
setx MYCDO "d:\My CDOs\" -m
But by doing this it sets the variable as a user environment variable like this,
d:\My CDOs" -m
I've looked at a few manuals online but I can't seem to get it to work,
http://www.amirkamal.com/tools/setx_d.htm
When you take away the backslash it works fine, can anyone help?
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Posted by:
weberik
12 years ago
try this syntax:
setx MYCDO "d:\My CDOs\\" /M
somehow you need to escape the second backslash with another backslash.
setx behaves really weird here
setx MYCDO "d:\My CDOs\\" /M
somehow you need to escape the second backslash with another backslash.
setx behaves really weird here
Posted by:
shenmue232
12 years ago
I managed to get it working in the end using the registry mode in setx, here's the example,
Registry Mode Syntax
setx variable -k hive\key\...\value [-m]
Where:
variable
is the name of the environmental variable to be set.
-k
specifies that the variable is set based on information from a registry key.
hive\key\...\value
is the registry path to the value for the environmental variable. For example: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\StandardName
-m
specifies that the value being set is in the system environment. The default is the user environment.
I added a reference registry key into the registry with the value I wanted, I then pointed setx to that location in the registry.
Thanks for all your help weberik
Registry Mode Syntax
setx variable -k hive\key\...\value [-m]
Where:
variable
is the name of the environmental variable to be set.
-k
specifies that the variable is set based on information from a registry key.
hive\key\...\value
is the registry path to the value for the environmental variable. For example: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\StandardName
-m
specifies that the value being set is in the system environment. The default is the user environment.
I added a reference registry key into the registry with the value I wanted, I then pointed setx to that location in the registry.
Thanks for all your help weberik
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