In Windows cmd, how do I prompt for user input and use the result in another command?

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Try this:

@echo off
set /p id="Enter ID: "

You can then use %id% as a parameter to another batch file like jstack %id%.

For example:

set /P id=Enter id: 
jstack %id% > jstack.txt

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