In a Microsoft DOS/Windows based operating system there is no simple command to store the output of an executable to an environment variable. The following website has some pointers on how to accomplish this using various third-party tools:
This task is simpler in a UNIX based operating system where amongst others, you have the following options:
1. Use pipes with xargs to pipe the output of the executable to the SETENV or equivalent command.
2. Use the backtick operator to redirect the output to the SETENV or equivalent command.
Please refer to the appropriate MAN pages for the exact syntax for your UNIX based operating system.
