I am trying to echo a message and pipe it to another program. The problem is
that the message contains spechal characters.

The caret ^ can be used as escape for special characters. So, if I type

H:\>echo ^<

I get the correct output

<

The same happens if I redirect output to a file

H:\>echo ^< > test.txt

test.txt contains the right message.

But redirection to pipe seems to be broken.

H:\>echo ^< | more
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

What's the problem? Is there a solution or workaround?

"fab" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:88238844-87BC-4CB1-B6E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying to echo a message and pipe it to another program. The problem
>is
> that the message contains spechal characters.
>
> The caret ^ can be used as escape for special characters. So, if I type
>
> H:\>echo ^<
>
> I get the correct output
>
> <
>
> The same happens if I redirect output to a file
>
> H:\>echo ^< > test.txt
>
> test.txt contains the right message.
>
> But redirection to pipe seems to be broken.
>
> H:\>echo ^< | more
> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>
> What's the problem? Is there a solution or workaround?

The command
echo ^< | more
will pipe the string "<" to more.com. I suspect that more.com
is unable to deal with it. The "echo" command works just fine.

Your command is rather strange. What exactly are you trying
to achieve?

I was trying to send a string containing the character > to a program through
pipe. And I think it is not more's fault, as the same problem occurs with all
other programs, not just "more".

I used "more" just as an example, it's not the program I want to use.

"Pegasus" wrote:

>
> "fab" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:88238844-87BC-4CB1-B6E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am trying to echo a message and pipe it to another program. The problem
> >is
> > that the message contains spechal characters.
> >
> > The caret ^ can be used as escape for special characters. So, if I type
> >
> > H:\>echo ^<
> >
> > I get the correct output
> >
> > <
> >
> > The same happens if I redirect output to a file
> >
> > H:\>echo ^< > test.txt
> >
> > test.txt contains the right message.
> >
> > But redirection to pipe seems to be broken.
> >
> > H:\>echo ^< | more
> > The syntax of the command is incorrect.
> >
> > What's the problem? Is there a solution or workaround?
>
> The command
> echo ^< | more
> will pipe the string "<" to more.com. I suspect that more.com
> is unable to deal with it. The "echo" command works just fine.
>
> Your command is rather strange. What exactly are you trying
> to achieve?
>
>
>

You can walk around the problem using this syntax:
@echo off
echo ^< > c:\temp.txt
type c:\temp.txt | more

If you're interested in someone digging his teeth into this
one then you should repost your question here:
alt.msdos.batch.nt
They love this type of challenge!


"fab" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:071AB9F6-FE9F-4512-8CFF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I was trying to send a string containing the character > to a program
>through
> pipe. And I think it is not more's fault, as the same problem occurs with
> all
> other programs, not just "more".
>
> I used "more" just as an example, it's not the program I want to use.
>
> "Pegasus" wrote:
>
>>
>> "fab" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:88238844-87BC-4CB1-B6E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I am trying to echo a message and pipe it to another program. The
>> >problem
>> >is
>> > that the message contains spechal characters.
>> >
>> > The caret ^ can be used as escape for special characters. So, if I type
>> >
>> > H:\>echo ^<
>> >
>> > I get the correct output
>> >
>> > <
>> >
>> > The same happens if I redirect output to a file
>> >
>> > H:\>echo ^< > test.txt
>> >
>> > test.txt contains the right message.
>> >
>> > But redirection to pipe seems to be broken.
>> >
>> > H:\>echo ^< | more
>> > The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>> >
>> > What's the problem? Is there a solution or workaround?
>>
>> The command
>> echo ^< | more
>> will pipe the string "<" to more.com. I suspect that more.com
>> is unable to deal with it. The "echo" command works just fine.
>>
>> Your command is rather strange. What exactly are you trying
>> to achieve?
>>
>>
>>

fab wrote:
> I am trying to echo a message and pipe it to another program. The
> problem is that the message contains spechal characters.
>
> The caret ^ can be used as escape for special characters. So, if I
> type
>
> H:\>echo ^<
>
> I get the correct output
>
> <
>
> The same happens if I redirect output to a file
>
> H:\>echo ^< > test.txt
>
> test.txt contains the right message.
>
> But redirection to pipe seems to be broken.
>
> H:\>echo ^< | more
> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>
> What's the problem? Is there a solution or workaround?

See alt.msdos.batch.nt - those guys can tell you exactly how. I know you
have to "esc" the character, but not how to at the moment. IF it's
possible, those guys will know how. And, you can quote me on that <g>.

HTH
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