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output of dir to variable
Name: Nathan Date: November 7, 2003 at 19:34:21 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hi I have an easy question but for some reason I dont remember how to do this. its simple I have "dir unenc /b" and I want to get it into a variable. not as easy as I thought. oh one other thing this file MAY NOT use other files also I dont want it to be very large as what I used to use for this was a very small little thing
Name: Brian HANLON Date: November 8, 2003 at 06:23:45 Pacific
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Pop over to: http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/index.html (or just hit the "Homepage" link above - not my HP, but the easiest way to set a clickable link.) and have a look at: LMOD Versatile line/list modification tool to generate lists of commands, set variables to anything extracted from (DOS) output, and more.. Win NT/2000 compatible.
Should dolve your problem if it is DIR OUTPUT you need to handle. If the question is actually "How to set a DOS variable to that phrase" then simply: SET VAR001=DIR unenc /b will have %VAR001% represent the phrase.
Baldy.
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Response Number 2
Name: dtech10 Date: November 8, 2003 at 14:29:56 Pacific
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With XP you can also set var using the example below
dir unenc /b > dir.txt set /p dir=<dir.txt
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Response Number 3
Name: dtech10 Date: November 8, 2003 at 14:32:35 Pacific
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Hi sorry about the above the lines above should have been
dir unenc /b > dir.txt set /p dir<=dir.txt
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Response Number 4
Name: nathan Date: November 8, 2003 at 17:59:41 Pacific
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neither will suffice. the first one involves 3rd party correct? I didnt follow link but thats what I got from it. and and 2nd one involves extra files. that was my problem. it cannot use outside files.
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