In Bash, I can do something like this
somecmd << END
a lot of
text here
END
to feed input to a command directly from a script. I need to do the same in CMD.exe batch files (.cmd scripts). Is it possible?
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I believe you can use a single ^ character for each line.
EG:
echo This is a really long ^
text message that spans multiple ^
lines
returns:
C:\Users\Jonno>echo This is a really long ^
More? text message that spans multiple ^
More? lines
This is a really long text message that spans multiple lines
Jonno
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It's simple, but not as clean looking as it is in Unix/Linux. Try this:
(@echo.a lot of
@echo.text here
) | somecmd
Note that the . after the echo statement allows you to begin a line with blanks. The @ symbol is needed to prevent the echo statement from being sent to somecmd. You can eliminate the @ symbol thusly:
echo off
(echo.a lot of
echo.text here
) | somecmd
echo on
B. Reynolds
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Until now, I don't have found any solution to this problem !
I have only a workaround in defining some BAT scripts.
Using my script, the solution to your problem look like this
call INIT-TRAMEX.bat
%assign-sysout% FILE.SYSOUT.TXT
%w% a lot of
%w% text here
somecmd <%sysout%
But in all cases, the direct indirection is impossible.
INIT-TRAMEX.bat file defines %ASSIGN-SYSOUT% and %W% variables
::******************************************************************************
::* INIT-TRAMEX.bat
::******************************************************************************
@echo OFF
set scriptdir=c:\Scripts
set ASSIGN-SYSOUT=call %scriptdir%\AssignSysout.bat
set WRITE-TEXT=call %scriptdir%\WriteText.bat
set W=call %scriptdir%\WriteText.bat
ASSIGN-SYSOUT script defines %sysout% variable and create an empty file.
It contains following lines
set sysout=%1
@echo.>%sysout%
del %sysout%
WRITE-TEXT script contains following lines
IF "%1"=="" goto line
echo %* >>%sysout%
goto quit
:line
echo. >>%sysout%
:quit
Using this tips, DOS script is more readable.
schlebe
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