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niko
niko

Reputation: 9393

Question on Type command that has >?

         type file.txt > file2.txt \\ sends the file.txt contains to file2.txt

Suppose if the file name is stored in file2.txt How do i send it to type command? How do i open the file contents of it. If the file name is stored in file2.txt?

         type >file2.txt to open it? \\  its not working says incorrect syntax

I tried it in many ways.Can anyone help me ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 600

Answers (3)

Aacini
Aacini

Reputation: 67216

In most programming languages there are several ways to do the same things. I always thought that the easier/simpler one is the best one:

set /P VAR=< file.txt
type %VAR%

Regards...

Antonio

Upvotes: 2

Jim Deville
Jim Deville

Reputation: 10662

for /f "usebackq" %I IN (`type file.txt`) DO set VAR=%I
type %VAR%

Upvotes: 2

Roland Illig
Roland Illig

Reputation: 41625

You should try:

type file2.txt

Or if you want to combine come commands:

find "2011-07" logfile.txt | type

Or, if these are not what you want, maybe it is this:

file2.txt contains a filename (probably from a previous dir command). How can I open that file? – but sadly, I don't know the answer to this question.

Update: try this:

for /F %F in (file2.txt) do type %F

Upvotes: 1

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