Solved Assigning a type command's output as a variable.

I have a text file with the numbers "10" in it. If I send the command "type blah.txt" 10 comes out. My question is, how do I use the SET command to assign the output from this type command as a variable? I thought, for example, that this would do it: C:\>type blah.txt | SET certainnumber= However, when I check, I get this. C:\>ECHO %certainnumber% %certainnumber% How do I get the output from the type command to pipeline into the SET command? message edited by link9454

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