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Posted: **06 Dec 2009 13:55**

all,

I need some help on how to write a command to the DOS window using the reverse redirection symbol ( < ).

I have searched the internet for hours on trying to get some information on how to do this, but the only i've found is how to redirect OUTPUT to a text file. I need the opposite. I want to redirect the contents of a text file to the command line so I can execute it. Any ideas? Thanks!

Posted: **06 Dec 2009 16:17**

http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html

You can set different contents of a file as a token and perform a command against it using the for /f command.

Posted: **07 Dec 2009 11:28**

Wouldn't the < work in DOS ? Such as

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type < "C:\myfile.txt"

or

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myscript.bat < "C:\myfile.txt"

This is called INPUT REDIRECTION - sending the contents of a file to a command or a script.

You may also consider using biterscripting if that's an option ( http://www.biterscripting.com ) - here is an example of some commands.

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cat < "C:/myfile.txt"

Will catenate or type file C:/myfile.txt

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script myscript.bat < "C:/myfile.txt"

Will execute the script on input from file C:/myfile.txt.

You can also use variables. For example to find out how many lines in file C:/myfile.txt,

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var str content
cat "C:/myfile.txt" > $content
len $content

or you can use inline command directly as

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len { cat "C:/myfile.txt" }

Posted: **07 Dec 2009 12:11**

ajetrumpet wrote:I want to redirect the contents of a text file to the command line so I can execute it. Any ideas? Thanks!

Depends on what you mean. Can you give examples? I would think the for command is going to do what you want if I understand.

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