Double Piping/Redirection in FOR /F Command ||

neodoughnut · 28 Mar 2014 15:31

Hello everyone,

I have been using this for a while and its been a great reference.

I was just wondering what would the correct syntax to use for below:

FOR %a in ('wmic NODE:%name% computersystem get username || echo failed') DO echo %a

I have no problems using a single pipe and caret ^| in the statement above, but when I insert two I get:

|| was unexpected at this time.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Steve

bluesxman · 28 Mar 2014 16:00

Not sure what you've tried, but this should do it...

FOR /f %a in ('wmic NODE:%name% computersystem get username ^|^| echo failed') DO echo %a

neodoughnut · 28 Mar 2014 16:16

It works! Thank you very much. I owe you a pint

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