How can i get the first line of the output for given command in dos

Question

I need to get the very first line of the command line output not all line, For example if i give

             C:\\Temp> dir

I need displ

Answer 1

One approach to get the first line of output for a given command is to execute the command in a FOR loop, then break out of the loop after the first line.

@ECHO OFF

SET COMMAND=dir
FOR /F "delims=" %%A IN ('%COMMAND%') DO (
    SET TEMPVAR=%%A
    GOTO :Print 
)

:Print
ECHO %TEMPVAR%