I'm trying to query a user for the path to an installed program (for some reason the PATH env variable was not correctly updated during the installation).
I do the following:
@ echo off
echo using %ppath%
where /q python2
if errorlevel 1 (
set /p ppath= "Please enter the path to your python installation: "
echo using %ppath%
)
For testing purpose I explicitly look for python2 which is not in the PATH of my machine
My issue is that echo using %ppath% never prints what I just entered but the content of %ppath% from the previous execution of the batch file. Here is a sample interactive usage:
C:\MyData\SoftDev\git\PDC_Python>fix_python_installation.bat
using install1
Please enter the path to your python installation: install2
using install1
C:\MyData\SoftDev\git\PDC_Python>fix_python_installation.bat
using install2
Please enter the path to your python installation:
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need unfortunately to stick to windows batch command for this task.
