Copy text from within the batch file to a new text file

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I am trying to copy the line below to a new text file using a batch file. The line is given below:

objIEA.Navigate "http://"&WScript.Arguments(0)&"/video?session=3&alphabet=83&channel="&WScript.Arguments(1)&"&profile="& WScript.Arguments(2)

What I did is something like this and I am getting an error while executing the batch file.

ECHO objIEA.Navigate "http://"&WScript.Arguments(0)&"/video?session=3&alphabet=83&channel="&WScript.Arguments(1)&"&profile="& WScript.Arguments(2) > test.txt

The new file will have a .vbs extension, but it is not even working for test.txt.

edited Oct 27 '11 at 17:04

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asked Oct 27 '11 at 16:54

terrible, you should've done a bit of troubleshooting to narrow it down, then you'd have seen it was the ampersands that were the issue, and you could've asked it in simpler form with a clearer example focusing on the ampersands. very poor work there. – barlop Oct 27 '11 at 17:28

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It's the ampersands that are causing the problem (they're interpreted as special characters)

You can escape these out with the caret '^'

e.g. this works:

ECHO objIEA.Navigate "http://"^&WScript.Arguments(0)^&"/video?session=3&alphabet=83&channel="^&WScript.Arguments(1)^&"^&profile="^& WScript.Arguments(2) > test.txt

answered Oct 27 '11 at 17:20

thank you very much – waqas Oct 27 '11 at 17:31

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