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Posted: **07 Apr 2008 08:26**

Hi All,

I am a really big noob in batch : I was wondering how to put the result of a command in a variable

for example :
DIR /A-D /B %PACKERINPUTPATH%

returns me a file list that I would like to put in a variable name MYFILES

I know how to do it in X shell :

MYFILES=`ls $PACKERINPUTPATH`

But just can't find the equivalent in Batch script

Help me please and sorry for the noob question

Gabriel

Posted: **07 Apr 2008 17:51**

Is the out put of that command one-line or multiline?

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for /f "delims=" %%a in ('DIR /A-D /B %PACKERINPUTPATH%') do set MYFILES=%%a

will work for a one liner not sure about multi.

If it's a dir listing with mutli lines, usually best to write to a temp file like

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DIR /A-D /B %PACKERINPUTPATH% > %temp%\temp1.tmp

and read it back with a for loop:

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for /f "delims=" %%a in (%temp%\temp1.tmp) do (
echo Value=%%a
)

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