How do I request and receive user input in a .bat and use it to run a certain program?

Question

This is what I have so far

@echo off
:Ask
echo Would you like to use developer mode?(Y/N)
set INPUT=
set /P INPUT=Type input: %=%
If %INPUT%==\"y\" goto yes          


        

Answer 1

Here is a working example:

@echo off
:ask
@echo echo Would you like to use developer mode?(Y/N)
set INPUT=
set /P INPUT=Type input: %=%
If /I "%INPUT%"=="y" goto yes 
If /I "%INPUT%"=="n" goto no
goto ask
:yes
@echo you select yes
goto exit
:no
@echo you select no
goto exit
:exit
@pause

Answer 2

I have improved batch file with yes or no prompt. If user enter any character except y and n , then it will again prompt user for valid input. It Works for me.

    @echo off

    :ConfirmBox 
        set /P c= Are you sure want to contine (y/n)?

    if /I "%c%" EQU "Y" (
    goto :FnYes 
    ) else if /I "%c%" EQU "N" ( 
    goto :FnNo
    ) else ( 
    goto :InValid 
    )


:FnYes
     echo You have entered Y
     goto :END

:FnNo
     echo You have entered N
     goto :END

:InValid
     echo Invalid selection. Enter Y or N
     goto :ConfirmBox

:END
    pause
    exit  

/I in if condition will validate both lowercase and uppercase characters.

Answer 3

i just do :

set /p input= yes or no
if %input%==yes echo you clicked yes
if %input%==no echo you clicked no
pause

Answer 4

I don't know the platform you're doing this on but I assume Windows due to the .bat extension.

Also I don't have a way to check this but this seems like the batch processor skips the If lines due to some errors and then executes the one with -dev.

You could try this by chaning the two jump targets (:yes and :no) along with the code. If then the line without -dev is executed you know your If lines are erroneous.

If so, please check if == is really the right way to do a comparison in .bat files.

Also, judging from the way bash does this stuff, %foo=="y" might evaluate to true only if %foo includes the quotes. So maybe "%foo"=="y" is the way to go.

Answer 5

Add quotation marks (" ") around the %INPUT% so it looks like this:

If "%INPUT%" == "y" goto yes
If "%INPUT%" == "n" goto no
If "%INPUT%" == "Y" goto yes
If "%INPUT%" == "N" goto no

Answer 6

try this for comparision

if "%INPUT%"=="y"...