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In article <babcock.12.0@cfa.harvard.edu> babcock@cfa.harvard.edu (Robert W. Babcock) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.160029.26833@newton.ccs.tuns.ca> macdonak@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Kevin MacDonald) writes:
>
>>Is there any way to display the contents of a single DOS variable?
>>I know you can display all current variables by typing SET, but there
>>doesn't appear to be any way to display variables individually.
>
>In a batch file you could do something like
>  echo COMSPEC is %COMSPEC%
>This can be redirected.

Well, no, in fact, it can't.  Batch file redirection doesn't work.

While conceding that the inability to reference env vars directly from
the shell is a enormous omission on the part of the COMMAND.COM
designers (& I can already hear the 4DOSers gathering up their voices),
I have had good luck with:

	set | grep VARNAME

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