Can't figure out how to read file from nmake

Question

I am doing something like this:

all: 
    @SET /p filecontent= < somefile.txt
    @echo %filecontent%

However the filecontent

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

# ---- vitaly.mak ----

target1:
# create and invoke a temporary cmd file
@<

I think a cmd/bat file run within nmake.exe cannot affect the environment of nmake. So you must use the password that you grabbed from the secret.txt within the temporary cmd file.