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I am trying to write some code to a VBS file through batch. Everything works fine except

echo if(Time()>TimeValue("8:30am") and Time()<TimeValue("3:15pm")) then >>

This is among other echos to this file like

echo do >> %APPDATA%\tbwg22f.vbs
echo if(Time()>TimeValue("8:30am") and Time()<TimeValue("3:15pm")) then >> %APPDATA%\tbwg22f.vbs
echo Dim message, sapi >> %APPDATA%\tbwg22f.vbs

The if(Time) line won't echo to my VBS file but all the other ones do

phuclv
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(, ), > are special characters to the shell. You need to escape them to print as a literal string

echo if^(Time^(^)^>TimeValue("8:30am") and Time^(^)^<TimeValue^("3:15pm"^)^) then >>
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