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Old 07-15-2008   #1 (permalink)
WB


 
 

Pipe a pipe command to a file

I couldn't find any better place to post this, so here it is:

I'm trying to find a way to echo a pipe command (>>) to a file.

Basically I'm trying to have one batch file create another batch file on the
fly. Unfortunately one of the commands already has a pipe command in it:

FOR /F %%I IN ('%1') DO ECHO %%~I >>%2

So to pipe it to a batch file, I would normally do this:

echo FOR /F %%I IN ('%1') DO ECHO %%~I >>%2 >> c:\test.bat

Unfortunately this fails because there are two sets of pipe commands (>>) in
the line.

Is there a way around this, maybe a way to specify ASCII characters in place
of >>?

Thanks,
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Bill Baker
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