On Monday 07 April 2003 02:02 pm, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 01:09 pm, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > > there is a c: hardcoded in at least one of the batch files
> > > therefore put the code somewhere on your c: drive or search for
> > > the c: and change to the appropriate drive.
> >
> > I just did a scan, and found the c: in SRC_GET.BAT.  Argh, if CMD
> > would only let you pass the output of one command as a parameter
> > to another.
>
> You can:
>
> for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`some command`) do some other command %i

er...

inside a batch file:
for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`some command`) do some other command %%i

on the command line:
for /f "usebackq" %i in (`some command`) do some other command %i

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