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Reading the output of a command into a batch file variable

July 31, 2012 Jul 31, 2012 07/31/12

Raymond Chen

It's Day Two of Batch File Week. Don't worry, it'll be over in a few days. There is no obvious way to read the output of a command into a batch file variable. In unix-style shells, this is done via backquoting. The Windows command processor does not have direct backquoting, but you can fake it by abusing the command. Here's the ...