On 28/08/2013 02:55 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> (OK, so if you do a Google search, there is actually a workaround for
>> grabbing command output in a variable. You can do this:
>
>>      foo.exe>  temp.txt
>>      SET /P VAR<  temp.txt
>
>> Isn't that intuitive?)
>
> Why wouldn't "foo.exe | SET /P VAR" work? Or didn't pipes work in DOS like
> they do in unix?

I'm not sure why it doesn't work - but I just tried it, and it doesn't.

It's probably related to SET being a shell built-in or something 
retarded like that.

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