How to receive even the strangest command line parameters?

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I don’t think anyone found any holes in this, except for the inability to read newlines in the parameters:

@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
set argCnt=1
:getArgs
>"%temp%\getArg.txt" <"%temp%\getArg.txt" (
  setlocal disableExtensions
  set prompt=#
  echo on
  for %%a in (%%a) do rem . %1.
  echo off
  endlocal
  set /p "arg%argCnt%="
  set /p "arg%argCnt%="
  set "arg%argCnt%=!arg%argCnt%:~7,-2!"
  if defined arg%argCnt% (
    set /a argCnt+=1
    shift /1
    goto :getArgs
  ) else set /a argCnt-=1
)
del "%temp%\getArg.txt"
set arg

The above comes from a lively DosTips discussion – http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13002#p13002. DosTips user Liviu came up with the critical SETLOCAL DisableExtensions piece.

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