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@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- > Oracle Certified Profesional 9i 10g > Orace Certified Professional Developer 6i > > 8 years of experience in Oracle 7,8i,9i,10g and developer 6i > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com