Using IF statements with variables

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Sorry if I'm asking a very silly question, but I'm a bit rusty in writing simple batch scripts but I'm running into an issue. I wanted to write a script that will change a local admin password depending on the day of the week. The script runs but just runs the first label and skips the IF statements, and I'm a little unsure of what the issue might be.

FOR /F "skip=1" %%A IN ('WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get DayOfWeek') DO (
  set DOW=%%A
)

IF DOW == 0 goto SUN
IF DOW == 1 goto MON
IF DOW == 2 goto TUE
IF DOW == 3 goto WED
IF DOW == 4 goto THU
IF DOW == 5 goto FRI
IF DOW == 6 goto SAT

:SUN
net user admin Password0
GOTO END

:MON
net user admin Password1
GOTO END

:TUE
net user admin Password2
GOTO END

:WED
net user admin Password3
GOTO END

:THU
net user admin Password4
GOTO END

:FRI
net user admin Password5
GOTO END

:SAT
net user admin Password6
GOTO END

:END

MC ND · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-25 16:43:43Z

2

To read the value inside DOW variable, the syntax is %DOW%.

if %DOW%==0 goto SUN

answered Jul 25, 2014 at 16:43

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gbabu · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-25 20:42:47Z

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You could also use the below. Also note that you need to prefix the label with a Colon (:) which seems to be missing in your code.

if %DOW% EQU 0 goto :SUN

Cheers, G

answered Jul 25, 2014 at 20:42

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