Windows – remove quotes “” from string in batch file

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I use:

FOR /F "delims=" %%G IN ("%command%") DO SET command=%%~G

to remove "" quotes from variable %command%. If command = "Shutdown /s /t 00", after this line it will be: Shutdown /s /t 00. and it works.
But when command contains a string where are a equal sign (=), it remove also this caracter. Example:
before, command = "D:\temp\stinger –ADL –GO –Silent –ReportPath= D:\temp –ReportOnly –Delete –Program"
After, command= D:\temp\stinger –ADL –GO –Silent –ReportPath D:\temp –ReportOnly –Delete –Program

Look, the quotes "" are removed, but also the sign = .

So, how to remove the quotes "" without removing the equal character.

Thanks

Best Answer

Instead of your for loop through the command, you could just use string manipulation.

set command=%command:"=%

the values after command are "=<nul> so you're getting rid of quotation marks in the variable command. Just as an extra example, you could also do %command: =_% to replace all spaces in command with underscores.

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