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Understanding Delayed Expansion in Batch CMD

I always try to avoid writing Batch script files as it's really tedious to maintain them in contrary of other scripting languages like BASH for example.

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But sometimes it's unavoidable to deal with some Batch code. That's why it's really important to understand some concepts specially the "Delayed Expansion" concept in batch files.

This is a good tutorial of understanding the concept of "Delayed Expansion" in batch files. This is a good concept to know when writing a Batch file that is including relatively not simple code (for example if, for, ..etc) statements.

Enjoy,

https://ss64.com/nt/delayedexpansion.html

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