How to count no of lines in text file and store the value into a variable using batch script?

Question

I want to count the no of lines in a text file and then the value has to be stored into a environment variable. The command to count the no of lines is

findstr /R         


        

Answer 1

You could use the FOR /F loop, to assign the output to a variable.

I use the cmd-variable, so it's not neccessary to escape the pipe or other characters in the cmd-string, as the delayed expansion passes the string "unchanged" to the FOR-Loop.

@echo off
cls
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set "cmd=findstr /R /N "^^" file.txt | find /C ":""

for /f %%a in ('!cmd!') do set number=%%a
echo %number%