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This doesn't work, for example:
set var=<text.txt
It can be done like this in BASH:
#!/bin/bash variable=$(cat text.txt) echo $variable
set /P var=<text.txt
cmd
/P
set /P var=<text.txt
incmd
although I don't know whether/P
is valid switch in MS-DOS.