Getting Environment Variable in windows batch file

Question

echo %PATH% will print the enviroment variable PATH. But I want to assign the environment variable to a batch variable first and then get the value of the environment variable. Is it possible?

Something as follows:

set myvar=PATH
echo %myvar%

The above code will echo "PATH". But I want to get the enviroment variable PATH

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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try with :

set myvar=PATH

call echo %%myvar%%

or with delayed expansion (it should work faster):

@echo off
set myvar=PATH
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
echo !%myvar%!

Why you can use directly set set "myvar=%PATH%" ?

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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