passing variable to run cmd command

[macroman]

hi all, for sme reason my

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%vid%

not printing out in the cmd window.. but when i

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MDL>%vid%

i see the results just fine... perhaps I need an escape character somewhere? any kind of help is greatly appreciated!

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Run>cmd /k youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -o "P:\youtube\downloads-vid\%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" "https://youtu.be/%vid%"

[hagchr]

Hi, splitting the line seems to work:

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Let>vid=TestFilm

//Not working
Let>res=Run>cmd /k youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -o "P:\youtube\downloads-vid\%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" "https://youtu.be/%vid%"
MDL>res

//Working
Let>tmpa=Run>cmd /k youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -o "P:\youtube\downloads-vid\%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
Let>tmpb="https://youtu.be/%vid%"
Let>res=%tmpa% %tmpb% 

MDL>res

[macroman]

Hi, splitting the line seems to work:

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Let>vid=TestFilm

//Not working
Let>res=Run>cmd /k youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -o "P:\youtube\downloads-vid\%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" "https://youtu.be/%vid%"
MDL>res

//Working
Let>tmpa=Run>cmd /k youtube-dl --restrict-filenames -o "P:\youtube\downloads-vid\%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
Let>tmpb="https://youtu.be/%vid%"
Let>res=%tmpa% %tmpb% 

MDL>res

yeah for some reason that command line is looking for another % to close the deal... i ended up doing two

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 %(id)s%(id)s

then the single line works fine...

[hagchr]

Another way would have been to define Let>perc=% and then use %perc% instead of % in the formula.