Running WMIC from within .bat fails?

[joshc]

I have a simple WMIC command that utilises a wild card search.

wmic product where "name like 'Infocouncil%'" call uninstall

When running this directly from a command prompt it works fine. However if I run the same command from within a .bat file it fails to find an instance of the product.

Now if I remove the wildcard search in the bat file it works fine:

wmic product where name="Infocouncil_5_3_19_0_" call uninstall

Any ideas?

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[Tom Lavedas]

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Need to escape percent signs, which are normal parsed in batch files.
This should work ...

wmic product where "name like 'Infocouncil%%'" call uninstall
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Tom Lavedas

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Hi,
Tom is right but If there are more than one products installed for "InfoCouncil" it will uninstall only the first one it finds.

I am using a query in my batch file but instead of returning all the products it just gives me one.

WMIC product where "name like 'Adobe%%'" get name

I can see in my add remove programs that I have Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Shockwave Player but I am only getting Adobe Reader.