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I'm trying to assign a command output to a variable for later use, without the use of temp files. Following answers from here, using for /f "delims=" %%i in ('command') do set output=%%i, the prompt flashes too fast so I can't read the error message.

The command in question is echo ;%PATH%; | find /C /I "%PATH2%" where %PATH2% is an earlier set variable containing the path to the python folder. I'm trying to check if the user has the path set, and depending on that continue on. So I want to assign the command output from that command to a variable, in this case "output".

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  • Why can't you use temporary files? Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 22:27
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    Do not double-click the batch-file, open a command prompt window and run it from there, then you can read its output and error messages... You will need to escape the pipe symbol like ^| within a command line parsed by for /F... Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 22:29
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    You can also add @pause at the end of your batch file, this way it will wait for an input before to close Commented Aug 19, 2016 at 12:04
  • Possible duplicate of Capture output command CMD Commented Nov 24, 2016 at 16:23
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