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Lowercasing a string in BAT files

Using this silliness, here's an example of BAT file that will
lower-case a string given as an argument.

echo>%1
dir /b/l %1>lower.tmp
set /p result=<lower.tmp
echo %result%

Saving this as lower.bat, I run

lower "HELLO WORLD"

and get

hello world

as a result

to windows batch dos bat by debedb on Aug 05, 2005

Using Unix shell's backquote functionality in DOS/Windows batch files

In BAT files, an equivalent of a Unix shell's

set foo `bar`

can be accomplished as

bar>bar.tmp
set /p foo=<bar.tmp

If you're spoiled by Unix's notion of
true pipes, note that the following:

bar | set /p foo=

does not work.