R help - May 2006 - simple .bat question but i can't find out where to post. my apologies for posting a non R question

----- Original Message ----- 
From: MARK LEEDS 
To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch 
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: simple .bat question but i can't find out where to post. my
apologiesfor posting a non R question


I have what I think is a simple .bat question but i can't figure out where
to post it ( i spent 6 hours looking through tutorials on batch commands but i
haven't had success .

Here is my question if anyone wouldn't mind answering :

previously, i was on linux and tickerFileToSimulate was a file that contained a
line in the top say "japan".

I had shell script in linux that had the following 2 lines in it.

TICKER_FILE = 'cat tickerFileToSimulate'
file = $TICKER_FILE

in this way, the variable $file was set equal to japan.

I CANNOT find how to do the equivalent in a .bat file on windows XP.

if someone could give me a place to post or tell me how to do it, it would be
really great and again i am sorry for posting this question.

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Put the following two lines in your batch file:

  for /f %%a in (myfile.txt) do set line=%%a & goto:nextline
  :nextlin

The RESOURCES file in the batchfiles*.zip distribution in:

   http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles

gives pointers to many batch file resources.

On 5/14/06, MARK LEEDS <markleeds at verizon.net>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MARK LEEDS
> To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 9:49 PM
> Subject: simple .bat question but i can't find out where to post. my
apologiesfor posting a non R question
>
>
> I have what I think is a simple .bat question but i can't figure out
where to post it ( i spent 6 hours looking through tutorials on batch commands
but i haven't had success .
>
> Here is my question if anyone wouldn't mind answering :
>
> previously, i was on linux and tickerFileToSimulate was a file that
contained a line in the top say "japan".
>
> I had shell script in linux that had the following 2 lines in it.
>
> TICKER_FILE = 'cat tickerFileToSimulate'
> file = $TICKER_FILE
>
> in this way, the variable $file was set equal to japan.
>
> I CANNOT find how to do the equivalent in a .bat file on windows XP.
>
> if someone could give me a place to post or tell me how to do it, it would
be really great and again i am sorry for posting this question.
>
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>
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