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SET--Examples

To set an environment variable named INCLUDE so that the string C:\INC (the INC directory on drive C) is associated with it, type the following command: set include=c:\inc You can then use the string C:\INC in batch files by enclosing the name INCLUDE with percent signs (%). For example, you might include the following command in a batch file in order to display the contents of the directory associated with the INCLUDE environment variable: dir %include% When MS-DOS processes this command, the string C:\INC replaces %INCLUDE%. Another possible use for the SET command is in a batch program that adds a new directory to the PATH environment variable, as the following example shows: @echo off rem ADDPATH.BAT adds a new directory rem to the PATH environment variable. set path=%1;%path% set
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