Escaping an equals sign in DOS batch string replacement command

Question

I need to replace some text in a JNLP file using a DOS batch file to tune it for the local machine.

The problem is that the search pattern contains an equals sign wh

Answer 1

Here's an alternative solution. If you can afford to download GNU tools, you can use sed:

C:\test>set a=200
C:\test>sed -i.bak "s/^\(.*initial-heap-size=\"\).*\( max.*\)/\1%a%\"\2/" file