Archive for December, 2008
Batch Set Var From Application Output
I have been looking for this line of code for a while. I needed to set a var in a batch script to be the output from an application.
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%R IN ('PROGRAM.EXE /SWITCH') DO SET VAR=%%R
My first attempt was something like this
application > ~tmpFile
set /p var= < ~tmpFile del ~tmpFile
This post is a prequel to simple mysql backup script for windows.