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Hi all,

New here so go easy on me..

I am writing a batch file to automate some cumbersome commands. The long and short of what i am tring to do is that i can get a command to run and it puts its out put into a tmp file, i then echo the results.

echo | capExtract c:\capextract %filename% > tmpcapextract$$.$$$
find "Found channel " < tmpcapextract$$.$$$
find "Found module " < tmpcapextract$$.$$$
del tmpcapextract$$.$$$

it gives the following output:

Found channel 6
Found module 1

Now what i would like to do is to use the numbers in the output as they will vary depending on what file a choose to use, but i would like to use them in my batch job later.

For example now that the file was checked and it returned with channel 6 and module 1. I now want to run another command capExtract c:\capextract %filename% ref %ChannelID% %moduleID%

digit 6 would need to be in %ChannelID%
digit 1 would need to be in %moduleID%

I hope this makes sense. Any help greatly received.

Avaya-geek,

Try this:

DosItHelp?

Hey thanks a ton for this, it didnt quite work as i got a message saying "< was not expexted at this time". I removed the < and bingo, you are a genius...

Now i have 1 more question, as something i was not expecting just happened. When i just got my batch to look at another test file it found the following:

Found channel 6
Found channel 38
Found module 1

So now it would seem that i need to ask the user only if there is more than one channel ID, any ideas?

DosItHelp wrote:Avaya-geek,

Try this:

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for /f "tokens=3" %%A in ('find "Found channel " < tmpcapextract$$.$$$') do set "ChannelID=%%A"
for /f "tokens=3" %%A in ('find "Found module " < tmpcapextract$$.$$$') do set "moduleID=%%A"

DosItHelp?