Displays, sets, or removes environment variables.
| SET | [variable=[string]] |
| variable | Specifies the environment-variable name. |
| string | Specifies a series of characters to assign to the variable. |
Type SET without parameters to display the current environment variables.
Type SET variable= without a value to delete variable from the environment.
Type SET variable=value to assign value to variable.
You can now use %variable% in batch files whenever you need its value.
| MS-DOS and PC-DOS (including Win95's MS-DOS 7) |
as described above |
| OS/2 Warp & eCS | as described above, though in CONFIG.SYS only the SET variable=value format is allowed |
| Windows NT 4/Windows 2000 | special features: simple math with /A and /P switches, string manipulation and delayed variable expansion |
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