Error in echo > in cmd for vbscript...

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Hello all i have a problem...

in my code i echo into a vbscript file but inside the echo i save output... how can i fix it so it echos the whole thing?

echo If intAnswer = vbYes Then   >>C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\box.bat.vbs  
echo Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject("WSCript.shell") >>C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\box.bat.vbs
echo oShell.run "cmd echo dont delete>C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\box.yes.syst" >>C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\box.bat.vbs

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echo oShell.run "cmd echo dont delete>C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\box.yes.syst" >>C:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\box.bat.vbs

it echos the dont delete into the file C:\users...\box.yes.vbs and it does not echo the whole thing. is there a way to put the whole thing in? by the way i only have a laptop so i do not have access to the num key shortcuts... unless i copy it from here. thanks a ton! -LUKAKA

Posted 3-Nov-15 11:17am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-15 17:50pm

What are you trying to achieve, exactly?
Echo is nothing but a function expecting a string on input, nothing else.
—SA

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2015-11-03T14:16:00

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Hello all i have a problem...

The problem is in your head !
That's what append when you use a commend without knowing what it does.
Said otherwise, your program works perfectly, you just don't know what you asked.

Advice/solution:
-Read reference documentation about Echo

more generally, read documentation about any command /function you use, before using it. This will avoid asking stupid question like yours.

There is no correction to a program that works perfectly as you requested. The only problem is that you don't know what you requested.

[Update]
You need to read documentation about escaping chars in echo.
To make things clear, you should have presented your question in another way.
I have this code
CODE
which produce this
WRONG RESULT
And I need
RIGHT RESULT

That should have made clear what is the problem for every one.