Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:27:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: to pipe system variables other variables at command line
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Stephan Rink wrote:

> I like to pipe a system variables to another variable at a MS DOS shell
> without using a file.

You can't, not with COMMAND.COM, anyway.  Bash can do it using the 
`foo` construct, which expands to what the program `foo' prints to its 
standard output.