I am by no means an expert in batch scripting and if you follow my posts you will have noticed I'm more of a VB scripting man. However I was doing some batch scripting for a customer of mine today in which I need to export some data from a command line executable tool to a variable.
This can be done as follows:
FOR /F "delims=" %i IN ('date /t') DO set today=%i
echo %today%
Now one thing which caught me out, if you put this code into a batch script "as is" you will notice the script will error out. This is because to declare variables in a batch script you must use two % signs instead of one.
For example, "set today=%I" needs to be "set today=%%i". To put the code in a batch script and to make it run you would use:
FOR /F "delims=" %%i IN ('date /t') DO set today=%%i
echo %today%
I hope this small post has been helpful - thankyou for reading.
This can be done as follows:
FOR /F "delims=" %i IN ('date /t') DO set today=%i
echo %today%
Now one thing which caught me out, if you put this code into a batch script "as is" you will notice the script will error out. This is because to declare variables in a batch script you must use two % signs instead of one.
For example, "set today=%I" needs to be "set today=%%i". To put the code in a batch script and to make it run you would use:
FOR /F "delims=" %%i IN ('date /t') DO set today=%%i
echo %today%
I hope this small post has been helpful - thankyou for reading.
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