capture string output of command line application in an environment variable

[John Faughnan]

This must have been answered here, but I found it hard to search for
this.

I vaguely remember years ago batch files and utilities that would
capture the output (stdout) of a command line application and put it
into an environment variable.

I'd like to do this with a command line application (WCD) in XP.

Can anyone point me to a reference or give some hints on the method?

john
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[Jon]

Perhaps something like......

for /f %%i in ('set username') do (set abc = %%i)
set abc

Putting the above 2 lines into a .bat file and running in DOS mode shows abc
contains the output of the command "set username"


for /? at command prompt for info on "for" command

Jon