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Using Unix Shell's Backquote Functionality In DOS/Windows Batch Files
In BAT files, an equivalent of a Unix shell's
set foo `bar`
can be accomplished as
bar>bar.tmp set /p foo=<bar.tmp
If you're spoiled by Unix's notion of true pipes, note that the following:
bar | set /p foo=
does not work.
