Save the output of a powershell command in a variable and use it in batch script?

Question

What I am trying to do is to save the output of a powershell command (run from a batch script) and use it in the batch script.

Can you please advise me what to do?

Answer 1

for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('powershell /command "[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostByName((hostname)).HostName"') do set return=%%i
echo %return%