[Toddles18]

I'm writing a script to append email address to a list. I have userid setup as a enviornmental variable %_USERID% What I need is for the batch file to take that variable, add a "<" before it and "@e-hps.net>" after it and append it to list.txt

So say the value of %_USERID is Todd, it would append the line <Todd@e-hps.net> to file list.txt

I hope someone can help me out with this.

[Squashman]

not sure if you can echo either one of these characters < >

I know how to do it in linux but I cant seem to do it in dos.

The only way I have been able to echo the special characters is to put them in quotes which will also echo the quotes.

Doing this:
set username=josh
echo "<%username%@mail.com>" >> emaillist.txt

gives you this;
"<josh@mail.com>"

[Squashman]

I knew there had to be a character like the backslash in Linux that does the same thing for dos. It is the carrot. The carrot before a character, tells the command interpreter to see it literally as a conventional character.

@echo off
set username=josh
echo ^<%username%@mail.com^> >> emaillist.txt

I am sure you can modify this to your needs

[Toddles18]

Thank you much, that should work just fine!