Windows batch file to iterate over extracted strings from a text file

Question

Given a text file file.txt containing

XXX-YYY-ZZZZ some other text
AAA-BBB-CCCC more text
UUU-VVV-WWWW etc etc

and a Windows .bat file

I'm seeking for a solution such that the string from each beginning of the line up to the first blank (excluding) will be extracted from the file and be given an executable in the .bat file as an argument.

The UNIX sh/sed pendant to which the following would be:

 for i in `cat file.txt | sed 's/ .*$//' `; do echo $i; done

with "echo" standing as a placeholder for the executable I would like to pass the argument to.

npocmaka · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-07 13:33:57Z

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for /f "usebackq tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ("file_path.txt") do echo %%a

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answered Jul 7, 2016 at 13:33

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Krischu Over a year ago

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.

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