Question

I have a directory path stored in a text file, and I need to CD to that directory in a script but don’t know how. I was hoping it would be something like

cat FILE | cd

but its not that easy.

This is a windows environment btw, in unix/linux it is easy:

cd `cat FILE`

Can anyone give me a hand?

Answer 1

set /p dirname=<FILE
cd %dirname%

The documentation for set (for XP) can be found here.

/p : Sets the value of variable to a
line of input.