Assign command output to variable in batch file

You can't assign a process output directly into a var, you need to parse the output with a For /F loop:

@Echo OFF

FOR /F "Tokens=2,*" %%A IN (
    'Reg Query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer" /v "CurrentVersion"'
) DO (
    REM Set "Version=%%B"
    Echo Version: %%B
)

Pause&Exit

http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html

PS: Change the reg key used if needed.

A method has already been devised, however this way you don't need a temp file.

for /f "delims=" %%i in ('command') do set output=%%i

However, I'm sure this has its own exceptions and limitations.

This post has a method to achieve this

from (zvrba) You can do it by redirecting the output to a file first. For example:

echo zz > bla.txt
set /p VV=<bla.txt
echo %VV%