set

set

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Set local environment variables .

Location

Internal

Syntax

 set   Variable   =   String   

Options

None

Displays current environment variables and their settings

Variable

The environment variable to set

String

The string to be associated with the environment variable

Examples

Create an environment variable named APPVAR and assign it the string value C:\stuff :

  set appvar=c:\stuff  

Use the echo command to display the value of the variable:

  echo %appvar%  c:\stuff 

Use the variable just created in a dir command:

  dir %appvar%  Volume in drive C has no label.  Volume Serial Number is D405-058E      Directory of c:\stuff     03/27/2003  07:28 PM    <DIR>          . 03/27/2003  07:28 PM    <DIR>          .. 03/27/2003  10:23 AM            12,307 Budget.rtf 03/27/2003  10:23 AM            20,677 Report.rtf 03/27/2003  10:23 AM            11,767 Resume.rtf                3 File(s)         44,751 bytes                2 Dir(s)   8,023,367,680 bytes free 

Notes

• The set command can be used at the Recovery Console; see Recovery Console in Chapter 4 for more info .

• Environment variables set using set are available only for the current console session. To set persistent variables, use setx instead.

See Also

cmd , setx