Is It possible to set environment variable and echo it in a single line batch script?

Question

set A=2 && echo %A%

This does not echo A as 2 in windows. Is there any way to do it?

A=2 ; echo $A

works in bash. I want a similar behavior on windows

Answer 1

Use one & instead of 2.

The following command in a bat file:

set A=2 & echo %A%

prints nicely 2 as output

Answer 2

I'm sure there are many ways to do this, here are two of them:

• setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION&set "foo=bar baz"&echo.!foo!&endlocal
• set "foo=bar baz"&for /F "tokens=1,* delims==" %%A in ('set foo') do if "%%~A"=="foo" echo.%%B

Edit: Added check to "filter" set results for 2nd solution, thanks Johannes Rössel

Answer 3

Note the ! surrounding A instead of %.

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET A=2 & ECHO !A!
ENDLOCAL