NT Batch files

Gavin

Quick question.
How do i set a variable to a command.

eg
i want TEST to contain a listing of files in the current firectory.

so %TEST% will be equal to index.html test.html blah.html

follow ?
any ideas ?
Cheers,
Gav

Koopa

well, if you can specify %test% to be a file on the hard disk (i dunno if you can), and do
dir /b/l c:\ > %test%
it might work, dunno much about NT batch file variables though so im not sure

Gambler

Nope, you can't set it up like that.. What do you want to use the %temp% Variable for?, might be able to help you find another way round it..

Gavin

Thanks for replies.
I just ended up rewriting the thing.

Works.. tis a bit klud*** though.

ps a program called aset can be used to
instantiate variables to command results.

Gav

Hobbes

You can't do it that way.

However what exactly do you want to do with the list of files?

You could do something like this...

for %x in (*.*) do echo %x exists!

(change %x to %%x if putting into a batch file).

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Quick question.
How do i set a variable to a command.

eg
i want TEST to contain a listing of files in the current firectory.

so %TEST% will be equal to index.html test.html blah.html

follow ?
any ideas ?
Cheers,
Gav</font>