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In a Bash shell I can write
some_command $(< some_file)
to pass the contents of some_file to some_command as command-line arguments. How can I best accomplish the same thing on Windows, preferably using built-in commands/syntax?
Edit: To clarify, any form of whitespace in some_file should be treated as argument separators as is the case in my Bash example. In particular, this needs to work even if some_file has multiple lines.
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set /p ARGS= <some_file
some_command %ARGS%
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