[MS-DOS] Read command-line parameters to .bat from file

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Published on 2010-06-02T10:18:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 10:34 UTC
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I have a build.bat file which uses %1 internally... so you might call:

build 1.23

I wanted it to read the parameter from a separate file, so I tried putting "1.23" in version.txt and doing:

build < version.txt

But it doesn't work. Isn't this how piping works? Is what I want possible and if so how?

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