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xs6
xs6

Reputation: 890

Read .txt line by line into batch variables

I have a batch script which sends pings to some PCs. The available PCs are written into a text file, so each PC stands in its own line. Another batch script copies some files to the PCs (at the moment it tries to copy to all PCs).

Now I want to modify the script(s) so the batch reads out the text file and only copies to the available PCs … but how?
It should read the written lines of the text file line by line and check for EOF.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7692

Answers (1)

Happy Face
Happy Face

Reputation: 1071

I'm not sure what do you want, but according to your question "Read .txt line by line and put it into variables", this might be useful for you.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

set count=0

for /f "tokens=*" %%x in (textfile.txt) do (
    set /a count+=1
    set var[!count!]=%%x
)
echo %var[4]%
pause >nul

echo %var[4]% will print out the 4th line in textfile.txt (or any text file).

Upvotes: 8

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