Expanding environment variables for command prompt

Question

I would like to run a cmd.exe that would evaluate environment variables at call time instead of when it parses the command. If I set the BASE to 2 and echoing it, I should s

Answer 1

This should work for you:

cmd.exe /X /V:ON /C "set BASE=2&&echo !BASE!&&pause"

/V:ON enables Delayed Expansion of variables, which is what you need here. Order of the switches (/V:ON /C) matters.