From: spam2074@arcor.de   
      
   Hi,   
      
   I think you always need a separate program to read multiple lines from   
   stdin in a for /f loop.   
   As mentioned before you can use more.exe or eg. findstr.exe /r /c:.* for   
   that.   
   When you want to include empty lines for filtering too you could use   
   sed.exe. Here is an example batch code (call it MyFilter.bat):   
      
      
   @echo off   
   SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion   
      
   REM sed.exe inserts one '#' char at the start of each line in order to   
   include empty lines too   
   for /f "delims=" %%d in ('sed -e "s/.*/#&/g"') do (   
     set "_LINE_=%%d"   
     REM remove the prviously inserted first '#' char   
     set "_LINE_=!_LINE_:~1!"   
      
     REM ... insert your own filtering code here ...   
      
     echo.!_LINE_!   
   )   
      
      
   So you can use it like:   
      
   dir | MyFilter.bat   
      
      
   Regards Konrad   
      
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