batch command question

[aloishis89]

Hey, I was wondering if there is a way to use dos to read text files. i am writing a script that will open a text file from a flash drive and then read the contents (it will only be 1 word), and then store whatever is in there as a variable. I know that there also has to be a way to do it in bash, so if someone could help me out with either of those, that would be great.

[Jordan]

Try this:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set SEPARATOR=/
set filecontent=
for /f "delims=" %%a in ("YourFile.txt") do (
  set currentline=%%a
  set filecontent=!filecontent!%SEPARATOR%!currentline!
)
echo The file contents are: %filecontent%

In bash it would be easy:

someVariable=`cat <filename>`

[aloishis89]

When I put in the file name, it returns : The file contents are: /MyFile.txt
i have both files in the same directory and named correctly.

[youwish]

@echo off
set file=xxx.txt
for /f "tokens=1*" %%a in (%file%) do echo %%a
pause

Is this what you want? My batch skills are rough.