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For me this only works for the first 1024 characters of the file. Sorry, I missed the fact this was on cygwin. Maybe it works better under cygwin.

Russell Gallop
– Russell Gallop

2014-04-24 10:15:58 +00:00
Commented Apr 24, 2014 at 10:15
@RussellGallop, did you find a workaround for this limitation?

xverges
– xverges

2014-05-28 12:08:55 +00:00
Commented May 28, 2014 at 12:08
set /P can only read 1024 characters. To read more, use for /F as shown in SpaceMonkey answer below.

Aacini
– Aacini

2014-05-28 15:41:43 +00:00
Commented May 28, 2014 at 15:41

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