Hello!
I am not quite sure how you intend to manage the stdin input inside the
batch file, but I was wondering if you are looking for something like xargs
(from Unix) and if a port of xargs to DOS would help (extra complexity for
keeping global variables though).
Aitor
El lun, 20 nov 2023,
> What I'm wondering is if the following (piping into a .BAT) is
> considered acceptable or "standard" for DOS.
>
> "prog1.exe | %COMSPEC% /c work.bat | %COMSPEC% /c fixups.bat
> some.txt"
>
> Does that work like I'd expect? (Seems to ... barely.) Is it rare?
> Is it buggy? Is there a better way?
"%COMSPEC% /c work.bat >file.txt" will succeed. Everyone knows that.
What I'm wondering is if the following (piping into a .BAT) is
considered acceptable or "standard" for DOS.
"prog1.exe | %COMSPEC% /c work.bat | %COMSPEC% /c fixups.bat >some.txt"
Does that work like I'd expect? (Seems to ...
