Windows equivalent of $export

Question

I am trying to follow some instructions for creating a directory using the command line. The instructions are:

$ export PROJ_HOME=$HOME/proj/111 $ export PROJECT_BASEDIR=PROJ_HOME/exercises/ex1 $ mkdir -p $PROJ_HOME 

Are these windows commands? Are there windows equivalents?

Answer 1

To translate your *nix style command script to windows/command batch style it would go like this:

SET PROJ_HOME=%USERPROFILE%/proj/111 SET PROJECT_BASEDIR=%PROJ_HOME%/exercises/ex1 mkdir "%PROJ_HOME%" 

mkdir on windows doens't have a -p parameter : from the MKDIR /? help:

MKDIR creates any intermediate directories in the path, if needed.

which basically is what mkdir -p (or --parents for purists) on *nix does, as taken from the man guide