Set output of a command as a variable (with pipes)

Question

Can you redirect the output of a command to a variable with pipes?

I haven\'t tried much as I haven\'t been able to think of anything to try, but I have tried one me

Answer 1

You can set the output to a temporary file and the read the data from the file after that you can delete the temporary file.

echo %date%>temp.txt
set /p myVarDate= < temp.txt
echo Date is %myVarDate%
del temp.txt

In this variable myVarDate contains the output of command.