Thanks! That worked perfect:)
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I am looking for a way to store the output of a program and use it as an input to another program. The first program is an exe file which runs and output a number. Then I am looking to run a bat program like run.bat but have this number as input (e.g. to be able to use it as %1 in the .bat file). Is that possible?
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by: QlemoPosted on 2009-11-08 at 05:19:13ID: 25770377
Kind of. You will have to use something like
for /F "tokens=* delims=" %%L in ('firstprog.exe') do set result=%%L
dowhatever %result%