Re: How do I get a value from the windows registry to set a variable

Juan

check out the windows scripting centre. (iirc its msdn.microsoft.com/scripting <http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting> ) bags of example scripts to get use registry and envvars - and a good introduction to appropriate scripting on the windows platform as well.

Niall

On 10/11/05, Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco <juancarlosreyesp_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi I'm trying to get a variable from windows from a bat file but I cant.
>
> I had check the reg.exe utility but this give you more data than needed
>
> reg query KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraDb10g_home1 /v
> oracle_home
>
> This returns all this information
> -------------------
> ! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraDb10g_home1
> oracle_home REG_SZ D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
> -------------------
>
>
> I only need somethin that returnsme the value to put it in a variable
>
> Thanks in advance.
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