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I have a batch file that spawns a shell with a modified path with the following command:

cmd /K set PATH=%PATH%;<additional path locations>

I want to set additional environment variables for the spawned shell as well. Is there any way to do that?

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Simply add another variable on a new line using set as shown in your example. You will also want to remove the /K switch from the first line as execution will stop after that line.

set NEWVAR=SOMETHING

will create a new variable called NEWVAR with the value SOMETHING. If you wish to keep the same behavior and keep cmd open with the /K switch just put it at the end.

example:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Folder;
set NEWVAR=SOMETHING
echo %NEWVAR%
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    Thanks - that worked like I wanted it to. I put cmd /K at the end because I wanted to use the shell after it had finished executing my commands.
    – quanticle
    Aug 15, 2009 at 1:10
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    You can also write a batch that makes all necessary changes to the environment and then simply start your cmd instance with cmd /k setvars.cmd. This is for example how Visual Studio sets up its command prompt.
    – Joey
    Aug 15, 2009 at 12:26
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You could also combine them into a single line as follows:

set A=foo & B=bar & C=baz

This way, you could avoid having to modify the original script and run it like so:

set A=foo & B=bar & C=baz & c:\path\to\foo.bat

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    When running this from an npm/yarn script, I had to prefix each variable assignment with set. e.g. set A=foo & set B=bar & set C=baz & c:\path\...
    – Greg K
    Jan 16, 2019 at 18:02
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summing up what others here posted, along with info gleaned from another post, here's what I saved into my internet_proxy_setup.bat file:

cmd /K "set http_proxy=http://proxy.mycorp.com:1234&& set https_proxy=http://proxy.mycorp.com:1235&& echo In HTTPS Proxy Shell&& cd %~dp0"

where the cd %~dp0 just changes the shell to the same directory that the .bat file is stored in

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