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CALL ss64.com for windows scripting help

Once again I find myself a slightly better Windows script writer thanks to the excellent reference pages provided by ss64.com. The particular situation I was stumped by, is wanting to be able to set a variable to the contents of another variable rather than the variable name. The answer? Use 3 percent signs in a loop.

:: Notice that to evaluate the contents of %pc1%
:: requires triple '%' symbols i.e 
CALL SET _pc_name=%%%_pc_name%%%

This is one CALL I'm very happy to have made.

What was my goal? To estimate the number of indexable documents in use s on our shared departmental fileserver, in order to get an idea of what size of Google Mini or search appliance we might need. My humble results: 

date: 2009-10-20