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Subject: Re: to pipe system variables other variables at command line
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:51:44 GMT
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Stephan Rink wrote:

> I like to pipe a system variables to another variable at a MS DOS shell
> without using a file.
> At the command line it should look like this
>
> C:> var1 < date /t                                // this will cause an
> error
> C:> copy name.txt name%var1.txt
> or
> C:> set var1= | date /t                         // this will show only
> the date
> C:> copy name.txt name%var1.txt
>
> How can I submit the output of a command to a Variable?
>
> Stephan

for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('date /t') do set zdate=%a