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Commands
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Commands [cont'd]
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String manipulation
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Things to Know
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Things to Know [cont'd]
Prompt value
Decision making
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Arithmetic Operators
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Examples
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Prompt value in Things to Know of MS-DOS Commands
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How to prompt a value from user in MS DOS batch file? 
SET command is used to set the values to the variable and get a value by prompting the user too on command prompt. By using /p option with SET command requires the value from the user. after equals operator value is used to ask the prompt value from user.

Example
SET /p username=Enter the user name

Hints
/p requires the value from command prompt.
username is the variable name.
Enter the user name is the prompt the message.
Example
@echo off
set /p confirmDeploy=Confirm deployment of code [y/n] ?:
echo %confirmDeploy%
Output 
Confirm deployment of code [y/n] ?:n
n
Addition using prompting two values?
@echo off
SET /p a=Enter the a value:
SET /p b=Enter the b value:

SET /a c=a+b

echo %c%
Output 
Enter the a value: 10
Enter the b value: 20
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