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, 9:06, Rugxulo via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> escribió:

> "%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 ... barely.) Is it rare? Is
> it buggy? Is there a better way?
>
> I've explored several other ways in DOS, including other shells (4DOS,
> DJGPP's Bash) or just a simple wrapper .C (system) or .PAS (exec)
> program.
>
> Does anyone have experience or advice with this? (Timo Salmi's BAT FAQ
> didn't quite cover it, from a quick glance.)
>
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