Windows Bat file optional argument parsing

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Though I tend to agree with @AlekDavis’ comment, there are nonetheless several ways to do this in the NT shell.

The approach I would take advantage of the SHIFT command and IF conditional branching, something like this…

@ECHO OFF

SET man1=%1
SET man2=%2
SHIFT & SHIFT

:loop
IF NOT "%1"=="" (
    IF "%1"=="-username" (
        SET user=%2
        SHIFT
    )
    IF "%1"=="-otheroption" (
        SET other=%2
        SHIFT
    )
    SHIFT
    GOTO :loop
)

ECHO Man1 = %man1%
ECHO Man2 = %man2%
ECHO Username = %user%
ECHO Other option = %other%

REM ...do stuff here...

:theend

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