Is there a way to set the result of a dsquery command as a variable? I want to get the full CN name of a computer through the following command: dsquery computer -name [workstation] The result of this I want set as a variable.

Help me out here. I never heard of dsquery. So what *IS* the out put? If it writes something ineteresting to stdout, you could work with that. For example, if I wanted to set a var to the total disk space reported by chkdsk, I could do this: ::== f2.bat chkdsk s:|find "total disk space" > # for /f "tokens=1" %%T in ('type #') do ( set myvar=%%T ) :: DONE If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

The result of dsquery is the workstations CN: "CN=W0849651,OU=Standard Desktops,OU=CLS,OU=SDK,DC=directory,DC=local" As you can see, this sometimes includes spaces. The code you provided tends to stop after the first space.

Is that output ONE LINE? Do you want to use the whole line? [I assume it does not include the quotes.] If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Yes, its one line and I want to use the whole line. [it actually does include the quotes]

Try this: dsquery computer -name [workstation]> # set /p myvar=<# If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

It works! Brilliant thanks!