To expand on davor’s answer, you can use PowerShell like this:
powershell "dir | tee test.txt"
If you’re trying to redirect the output of an exe in the current directory, you need to use .\
on the filename, eg:
powershell ".\something.exe | tee test.txt"
answered Dec 31, 2013 at 8:59
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I was able to find a solution/workaround of redirecting output to a file and then to the console:
dir > a.txt | type a.txt
where dir is the command which output needs to be redirected, a.txt a file where to store output.
answered Jul 17, 2009 at 6:59
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Check this out: wintee
No need for cygwin.
I did encounter and report some issues though.
Also you might check unxutils because it contains tee (and no need for cygwin), but beware that output EOL’s are UNIX-like here.
Last, but not least, is if you have PowerShell, you could try Tee-Object. Type get-help tee-object
in PowerShell console for more info.
answered Sep 15, 2012 at 14:57
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@tori3852
I found that
dir > a.txt | type a.txt
didn’t work (first few lines of dir listing only — suspect some sort of process forking and the second part, the ‘type’ command terminated before the dire listing had completed? ),
so instead I used:
dir > z.txt && type z.txt
which did — sequential commands, one completes before the second starts.
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answered Feb 2, 2011 at 5:25
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Unfortunately there is no such thing.
Windows console applications only have a single output handle. (Well, there are two STDOUT
, STDERR
but it doesn’t matter here) The >
redirects the output normally written to the console handle to a file handle.
If you want to have some kind of multiplexing you have to use an external application which you can divert the output to. This application then can write to a file and to the console again.
answered Apr 28, 2009 at 6:48
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A simple C# console application would do the trick:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
namespace CopyToFiles
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var buffer = new char[100];
var outputs = new List<TextWriter>();
foreach (var file in args)
outputs.Add(new StreamWriter(file));
outputs.Add(Console.Out);
int bytesRead;
do
{
bytesRead = Console.In.ReadBlock(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
outputs.ForEach(o => o.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead));
} while (bytesRead == buffer.Length);
outputs.ForEach(o => o.Close());
}
}
}
To use this you just pipe the source command into the program and provide the path of any files you want to duplicate the output to. For example:
dir | CopyToFiles files1.txt files2.txt
Will display the results of dir as well as store the results in both files1.txt and files2.txt.
Note that there isn’t much (anything!) in the way of error handling above, and supporting multiple files may not actually be required.
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answered Apr 28, 2009 at 7:01
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This works, though it’s a bit ugly:
dir >_ && type _ && type _ > a.txt
It’s a little more flexible than some of the other solutions, in that it works statement-by-statement so you can use it to append as well. I use this quite a bit in batch files to log and display messages:
ECHO Print line to screen and log to file. >_ && type _ && type _ >> logfile.txt
Yes, you could just repeat the ECHO statement (once for the screen and the second time redirecting to the logfile), but that looks just as bad and is a bit of a maintenance issue. At least this way you don’t have to make changes to messages in two places.
Note that _ is just a short filename, so you’ll need to make sure to delete it at the end of your batch file (if you’re using a batch file).
answered Mar 17, 2011 at 1:49
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I’d like to expand a bit on Saxon Druce’s excellent answer.
As stated, you can redirect the output of an executable in the current directory like so:
powershell ".\something.exe | tee test.txt"
However, this only logs stdout
to test.txt
. It doesn’t also log stderr
.
The obvious solution would be to use something like this:
powershell ".\something.exe 2>&1 | tee test.txt"
However, this won’t work for all something.exe
s. Some something.exe
s will interpret the 2>&1
as an argument and fail. The correct solution is to instead only have apostrophes around the something.exe
and its switches and arguments, like so:
powershell ".\something.exe --switch1 --switch2 … arg1 arg2 …" 2^>^&1 ^| tee test.txt
Notice though, that in this case you have to escape the special cmd-shell characters «>&|» with a «^» each so they only get interpreted by powershell.
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mtee is a small utility which works very well for this purpose. It’s free, source is open, and it Just Works.
You can find it at http://www.commandline.co.uk.
Used in a batch file to display output AND create a log file simultaneously, the syntax looks like this:
someprocess | mtee /+ mylogfile.txt
Where /+ means to append output.
This assumes that you have copied mtee into a folder which is in the PATH, of course.
answered Oct 21, 2011 at 20:36
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I agree with Brian Rasmussen, the unxutils port is the easiest way to do this. In the Batch Files section of his Scripting Pages Rob van der Woude provides a wealth of information on the use MS-DOS and CMD commands. I thought he might have a native solution to your problem and after digging around there I found TEE.BAT, which appears to be just that, an MS-DOS batch language implementation of tee. It is a pretty complex-looking batch file and my inclination would still be to use the unxutils port.
answered Apr 28, 2009 at 7:06
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If you have cygwin in your windows environment path you can use:
dir > a.txt | tail -f a.txt
answered May 16, 2014 at 13:12
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dir 1>a.txt 2>&1 | type a.txt
This will help to redirect both STDOUT and STDERR
answered Nov 2, 2011 at 15:23
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I know this is a very old topic, but in previous answers there is not a full implementation of a real time Tee written in Batch. My solution below is a Batch-JScript hybrid script that use the JScript section just to get the output from the piped command, but the processing of the data is done in the Batch section. This approach have the advantage that any Batch programmer may modify this program to fit specific needs. This program also correctly process the output of CLS command produced by other Batch files, that is, it clear the screen when CLS command output is detected.
@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
rem APATee.bat: Asynchronous (real time) Tee program, Batch-JScript hybrid version
rem Antonio Perez Ayala
rem The advantage of this program is that the data management is written in Batch code,
rem so any Batch programmer may modify it to fit their own needs.
rem As an example of this feature, CLS command is correctly managed
if "%~1" equ "" (
echo Duplicate the Stdout output of a command in the screen and a disk file
echo/
echo anyCommand ^| APATee teeFile.txt [/A]
echo/
echo If /A switch is given, anyCommand output is *appended* to teeFile.txt
goto :EOF
)
if "%2" equ ":TeeProcess" goto TeeProcess
rem Get the output of CLS command
for /F %%a in ('cls') do set "cls=%%a"
rem If /A switch is not provided, delete the file that receives Tee output
if /I "%~2" neq "/A" if exist %1 del %1
rem Create the semaphore-signal file and start the asynchronous Tee process
echo X > Flag.out
if exist Flag.in del Flag.in
Cscript //nologo //E:JScript "%~F0" | "%~F0" %1 :TeeProcess
del Flag.out
goto :EOF
:TeeProcess
rem Wait for "Data Available" signal
if not exist Flag.in goto TeeProcess
rem Read the line sent by JScript section
set line=
set /P line=
rem Set "Data Read" acknowledgement
ren Flag.in Flag.out
rem Check for the standard "End Of piped File" mark
if "!line!" equ ":_EOF_:" exit /B
rem Correctly manage CLS command
if "!line:~0,1!" equ "!cls!" (
cls
set "line=!line:~1!"
)
rem Duplicate the line in Stdout and the Tee output file
echo(!line!
echo(!line!>> %1
goto TeeProcess
@end
// JScript section
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
// Process all lines of Stdin
while ( ! WScript.Stdin.AtEndOfStream ) {
// Read the next line from Stdin
var line = WScript.Stdin.ReadLine();
// Wait for "Data Read" acknowledgement
while ( ! fso.FileExists("Flag.out") ) {
WScript.Sleep(10);
}
// Send the line to Batch section
WScript.Stdout.WriteLine(line);
// Set "Data Available" signal
fso.MoveFile("Flag.out", "Flag.in");
}
// Wait for last "Data Read" acknowledgement
while ( ! fso.FileExists("Flag.out") ) {
WScript.Sleep(10);
}
// Send the standard "End Of piped File" mark
WScript.Stdout.WriteLine(":_EOF_:");
fso.MoveFile("Flag.out", "Flag.in");
answered May 20, 2013 at 3:07
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I was also looking for the same solution, after a little try, I was successfully able to achieve that in Command Prompt. Here is my solution :
@Echo off
for /f "Delims=" %%a IN (xyz.bat) do (
%%a > _ && type _ && type _ >> log.txt
)
@Echo on
It even captures any PAUSE command as well.
answered Dec 2, 2014 at 19:50
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Something like this should do what you need?
%DATE%_%TIME% > c:\a.txt & type c:\a.txt
ipconfig >> c:\a.txt & type c:\a.txt
ping localhost >> c:\a.txt & type c:\a.txt
pause
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answered Apr 5, 2016 at 13:40
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Here’s a sample of what I’ve used based on one of the other answers
@echo off
REM SOME CODE
set __ERROR_LOG=c:\errors.txt
REM set __IPADDRESS=x.x.x.x
REM Test a variable
if not defined __IPADDRESS (
REM Call function with some data and terminate
call :TEE %DATE%,%TIME%,IP ADDRESS IS NOT DEFINED
goto :EOF
)
REM If test happens to be successful, TEE out a message and end script.
call :TEE Script Ended Successful
goto :EOF
REM THE TEE FUNCTION
:TEE
for /f "tokens=*" %%Z in ("%*") do (
> CON ECHO.%%Z
>> "%__ERROR_LOG%" ECHO.%%Z
goto :EOF
)
answered Nov 2, 2011 at 18:17
send output to console, append to console log, delete output from current command
dir >> usb-create.1 && type usb-create.1 >> usb-create.log | type usb-create.1 && del usb-create.1
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answered Jan 23, 2015 at 18:46
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This is not another answer, but more an overview and clarification to the already existed answers like
Displaying Windows command prompt output and redirecting it to a file
and others
I’ve found for myself that there is a set of issues what makes a set of tee implementations are not reliable in the Windows (Windows 7
in mine case).
I need to use specifically a tee implementation because have already uses a batch script with self redirection:
@echo off
setlocal
... some conditions here ..
rem the redirection
"%COMSPEC%" /C call %0 %* 2>&1 | "<path_to_tee_utililty>" ".log\<log_file_name_with_date_and_time>.%~nx0.log"
exit /b
:IMPL
... here the rest of script ...
The script and calls to some utilities inside the script can break the output if used together with a tee utility.
- The gnuwin32 implementation:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
Pros:
- Correctly handles standard output together with a console progress bar, where the
\r
character is heavily used.
Cons:
- Makes console progress bars to draw only in a log file, but it has not duplicated or visible in the console window.
- Throws multiple error messages
Cwrite error: No such file or directory
because seems the cmd interpreter closes the pipe/stdout too early and can not self close after that (spamming until termination). - Does not duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window.
- The wintee implementation:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/wintee/
https://github.com/rbuhl/wintee
Pros:
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
- Does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window.
Cons:
- Incorrectly handles the
\r
character, output is mixed and messed (https://code.google.com/archive/p/wintee/issues/7 ). - Having other issues: https://code.google.com/archive/p/wintee/issues
- The UnxUtils implementation:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/files/unxutils/current/
Pros
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
- Correctly handles the
\r
character. - Does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window.
Cons
Not yet found
- The ss64.net implementation:
http://ss64.net/westlake/nt
http://ss64.net/westlake/nt/tee.zip
Pros:
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
Cons:
- Incorrectly handles the
\r
character, output is mixed and messed - For some reason does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window AFTER a key press.
- The ritchielawrence mtee implementation:
https://ritchielawrence.github.io/mtee
https://github.com/ritchielawrence/mtee
Pros
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
- Correctly handles the
\r
character. - Does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window. - The error code retain feature w/o a need to use workaround with the
doskey
(/E
flag, Windows command interpreter: how to obtain exit code of first piped command )
Cons
-
Does not support forward slash characters in the path to a log file (https://github.com/ritchielawrence/mtee/issues/6 )
-
Has a race condition issue, when can not extract a pipe process exit code because it has closed before it’s access (https://github.com/ritchielawrence/mtee/issues/4 )
So, if you are choosing the tee utility implementation between the above, then a better choice is the UnxUtils
or mtee
.
If you are searching for a better implementation with more features and less issues, then you can use callf
utility:
https://github.com/andry81/contools/tree/HEAD/Utilities/src/callf/help.tpl
You can run instead of:
call test.bat | mtee /E 1.log
This:
callf.exe /ret-child-exit /tee-stdout 1.log /tee-stdout-dup 1 "" "cmd.exe /c call test.bat"
It is better because it can pipe stdout
separately from stderr
and you can even pipe between processes with Administrator privileges isolation using named pipes.
answered Jul 7, 2020 at 9:09
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This is a variation on a previous answer by MTS, however it adds some functionality that might be useful to others. Here is the method that I used:
- A command is set as a variable, that can be used later throughout the code, to output to the command window and append to a log file, using
set _Temp_Msg_Cmd=
- the command has escaped redirection using the carrot
^
character so that the commands are not evaluated initially
- the command has escaped redirection using the carrot
- A temporary file is created with a filename similar to the batch file being run called
%~n0_temp.txt
that uses command line parameter extension syntax%~n0
to get the name of the batch file. - The output is appended to a separate log file
%~n0_log.txt
Here is the sequence of commands:
- The output and error messages are sent to the temporary file
^> %~n0_temp.txt 2^>^&1
- The content of the temporary file is then both:
- appended to the logfile
^& type %~n0_temp.txt ^>^> %~n0_log.txt
- output to the command window
^& type %~n0_temp.txt
- appended to the logfile
- The temporary file with the message is deleted
^& del /Q /F %~n0_temp.txt
Here is the example:
set _Temp_Msg_Cmd= ^> %~n0_temp.txt 2^>^&1 ^& type %~n0_temp.txt ^>^> %~n0_log.txt ^& type %~n0_temp.txt ^& del /Q /F %~n0_temp.txt
This way then the command can simply be appended after later commands in a batch file that looks a lot cleaner:
echo test message %_Temp_Msg_Cmd%
This can be added to the end of other commands as well. As far as I can tell it will work when messages have multiple lines. For example the following command outputs two lines if there is an error message:
net use M: /D /Y %_Temp_Msg_Cmd%
answered Jul 27, 2015 at 16:36
Just like unix.
dir | tee a.txt
Does work On windows XP, it requires mksnt
installed.
It displays on the prompt as well as appends to the file.
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answered May 3, 2013 at 12:47
@echo on
set startDate=%date%
set startTime=%time%
set /a sth=%startTime:~0,2%
set /a stm=1%startTime:~3,2% - 100
set /a sts=1%startTime:~6,2% - 100
fullprocess.bat > C:\LOGS\%startDate%_%sth%.%stm%.%sts%.LOG | fullprocess.bat
This will create a log file with the current datetime and you can the console lines during the process
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answered Dec 3, 2010 at 14:15
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I use a batch subroutine with a «for» statement to get the command output one line at a time and both write that line to a file and output it to the console.
@echo off
set logfile=test.log
call :ExecuteAndTee dir C:\Program Files
Exit /B 0
:ExecuteAndTee
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
echo Executing '%*'
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('%* 2^>^&1') do (echo.%%a & echo.%%a>>%logfile%)
endlocal
Exit /B 0
answered Feb 27, 2014 at 21:45
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If you’re on the CLI, why not use a FOR loop to «DO» whatever you want:
for /F "delims=" %a in ('dir') do @echo %a && echo %a >> output.txt
Great resource on Windows CMD for loops: https://ss64.com/nt/for_cmd.html
The key here is setting the delimeters (delims), that would break up each line of output, to nothing. This way it won’t break on the default of white-space. The %a is an arbitrary letter, but it is used in the «do» section to, well… do something with the characters that were parsed at each line. In this case we can use the ampersands (&&) to execute the 2nd echo command to create-or-append (>>) to a file of our choosing. Safer to keep this order of DO commands in case there’s an issue writing the file, we’ll at least get the echo to the console first. The at sign (@) in front of the first echo suppresses the console from showing the echo-command itself, and instead just displays the result of the command which is to display the characters in %a. Otherwise you’d see:
echo Volume in drive [x] is Windows
Volume in drive [x] is Windows
UPDATE: /F skips blank lines and only fix is to pre-filter the output adding a character to every line (maybe with line-numbers via the command find). Solving this in CLI isn’t quick or pretty. Also, I didn’t include STDERR, so here’s capturing errors as well:
for /F "delims=" %a in ('dir 2^>^&1') do @echo %a & echo %a >> output.txt
Redirecting Error Messages
The carets (^) are there to escape the symbols after them, because the command is a string that’s being interpreted, as opposed to say, entering it directly on the command-line.
answered Feb 6, 2019 at 20:37
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I just found a way to use the perl as alternative, e.g.:
CMD1 | perl -ne "print $_; print STDERR $_;" 2> OUTPUT.TEE
answered Jul 2, 2020 at 11:05
Following helps if you want something really seen on the screen — even if the batch file was redirected to a file. The device CON maybe used also if redirected to a file
Example:
ECHO first line on normal stdout. maybe redirected
ECHO second line on normal stdout again. maybe redirected
ECHO third line is to ask the user. not redirected >CON
ECHO fourth line on normal stdout again. maybe redirected
Also see good redirection description: http://www.p-dd.com/chapter7-page14.html
answered Jul 8, 2009 at 8:52
Baresi der LiberoBaresi der Libero
How do I display and redirect output
to a file. Suppose if I use dos
command, dir > test.txt ,this command
will redirect output to file test.txt
without displaying the results. how to
write a command to display the output
and redirect output to a file using
DOS i.e., windows command prompt, not
in UNIX/LINUX.
You may find these commands in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ) useful.
var str output
lf > $output
echo $output # Will show output on screen.
echo $output > "test.txt" # Will write output to file test.txt.
system start "test.txt" # Will open file test.txt for viewing/editing.
answered Jan 10, 2010 at 21:35
This works in real time but is also kind a ugly and the performance is slow. Not well tested either:
@echo off
cls
SET MYCOMMAND=dir /B
ECHO File called 'test.bat' > out.txt
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%I in (`%MYCOMMAND%`) do (
ECHO %%I
ECHO %%I >> out.txt
)
pause
answered Sep 20, 2012 at 17:48
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An alternative is to tee stdout to stderr within your program:
in java:
System.setOut(new PrintStream(new TeeOutputStream(System.out, System.err)));
Then, in your dos batchfile: java program > log.txt
The stdout will go to the logfile and the stderr (same data) will show on the console.
answered Nov 23, 2012 at 19:50
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I install perl on most of my machines so an answer using perl: tee.pl
my $file = shift || "tee.dat";
open $output, ">", $file or die "unable to open $file as output: $!";
while(<STDIN>)
{
print $_;
print $output $_;
}
close $output;
dir | perl tee.pl
or
dir | perl tee.pl dir.bat
crude and untested.
answered Feb 19, 2014 at 15:39
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Командная строка — неизменный компонент любой операционной системы Windows, который берет свое происхождение прямиком от её предка — операционной системы MS-DOS. Данная программа имеет довольно широкие возможности, но сейчас мы поговорим о довольно примитивной вещи — сохранение (по факту — перенаправление) вывода командной строки в текстовый файл.
Почитать о том, как сделать тоже самое в Linux\BSD системах можно в этой статье.
Использование перенаправления выполнения команд
В случае, если необходимо просто сохранить все, что вывела командная строка в текстовый файл, то нужно после введенной команды добавить символ «>», что приведет к созданию текстового файла и весь вывод командной строки отправится туда. Пример:
ping 8.8.8.8 > C:\Logs\ping.txt
Обратите внимание, что командная строка при перенаправлении вывода может создать только текстовый файл, но не папку. Если вы введете несуществующий путь, то получите ошибку!
Как видно, командная строка не вывела никакого результата введенной команды на экран, но зато сохранила все в файл ping.txt. К сожалению, существуют ограничения перенаправления вывода, которые не позволяют одновременно отображать вывод и в окне командной строки, и сохранять их в текстовый файл. Однако, можно воспользоваться хитростью — сразу по завершению выполнения команды вывести содержимое текстового файла на экран с помощью команды type. Получится что-то следующее:
ping 8.8.8.8 > C:\Logs\ping.txt & type C:\Logs\ping.txt
Если требуется файл не записывать (существующий текстовый файл будет перезаписан), а дописывать (существующий текстовый файл будет дополнен), нужно вместо одного символа «>» использовать два — «>>».
ping 8.8.8.8 >> C:\Logs\ping.txt
В случае, если в текстовый файл нужно сохранить так же какой-то текст (например, в составе bat файла), то можно воспользоваться комбинацией с командой echo:
echo Имя компьютера: %computername% > C:\Logs\ping.txt
echo Проверка пинга до google.ru >> C:\Logs\ping.txt
ping google.ru >> C:\Logs\ping.txt
Содержимое получившегося текстового файла будет следующим:
Для того, чтобы вывод был только в текстовый файл (без показа в окне командной строки), нужно вставить первой строкой в bat файле команду @echo off
To expand on davor’s answer, you can use PowerShell like this:
powershell "dir | tee test.txt"
If you’re trying to redirect the output of an exe in the current directory, you need to use .\
on the filename, eg:
powershell ".\something.exe | tee test.txt"
answered Dec 31, 2013 at 8:59
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I was able to find a solution/workaround of redirecting output to a file and then to the console:
dir > a.txt | type a.txt
where dir is the command which output needs to be redirected, a.txt a file where to store output.
answered Jul 17, 2009 at 6:59
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Check this out: wintee
No need for cygwin.
I did encounter and report some issues though.
Also you might check unxutils because it contains tee (and no need for cygwin), but beware that output EOL’s are UNIX-like here.
Last, but not least, is if you have PowerShell, you could try Tee-Object. Type get-help tee-object
in PowerShell console for more info.
answered Sep 15, 2012 at 14:57
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@tori3852
I found that
dir > a.txt | type a.txt
didn’t work (first few lines of dir listing only — suspect some sort of process forking and the second part, the ‘type’ command terminated before the dire listing had completed? ),
so instead I used:
dir > z.txt && type z.txt
which did — sequential commands, one completes before the second starts.
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answered Feb 2, 2011 at 5:25
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Unfortunately there is no such thing.
Windows console applications only have a single output handle. (Well, there are two STDOUT
, STDERR
but it doesn’t matter here) The >
redirects the output normally written to the console handle to a file handle.
If you want to have some kind of multiplexing you have to use an external application which you can divert the output to. This application then can write to a file and to the console again.
answered Apr 28, 2009 at 6:48
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A simple C# console application would do the trick:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
namespace CopyToFiles
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var buffer = new char[100];
var outputs = new List<TextWriter>();
foreach (var file in args)
outputs.Add(new StreamWriter(file));
outputs.Add(Console.Out);
int bytesRead;
do
{
bytesRead = Console.In.ReadBlock(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
outputs.ForEach(o => o.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead));
} while (bytesRead == buffer.Length);
outputs.ForEach(o => o.Close());
}
}
}
To use this you just pipe the source command into the program and provide the path of any files you want to duplicate the output to. For example:
dir | CopyToFiles files1.txt files2.txt
Will display the results of dir as well as store the results in both files1.txt and files2.txt.
Note that there isn’t much (anything!) in the way of error handling above, and supporting multiple files may not actually be required.
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answered Apr 28, 2009 at 7:01
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This works, though it’s a bit ugly:
dir >_ && type _ && type _ > a.txt
It’s a little more flexible than some of the other solutions, in that it works statement-by-statement so you can use it to append as well. I use this quite a bit in batch files to log and display messages:
ECHO Print line to screen and log to file. >_ && type _ && type _ >> logfile.txt
Yes, you could just repeat the ECHO statement (once for the screen and the second time redirecting to the logfile), but that looks just as bad and is a bit of a maintenance issue. At least this way you don’t have to make changes to messages in two places.
Note that _ is just a short filename, so you’ll need to make sure to delete it at the end of your batch file (if you’re using a batch file).
answered Mar 17, 2011 at 1:49
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I’d like to expand a bit on Saxon Druce’s excellent answer.
As stated, you can redirect the output of an executable in the current directory like so:
powershell ".\something.exe | tee test.txt"
However, this only logs stdout
to test.txt
. It doesn’t also log stderr
.
The obvious solution would be to use something like this:
powershell ".\something.exe 2>&1 | tee test.txt"
However, this won’t work for all something.exe
s. Some something.exe
s will interpret the 2>&1
as an argument and fail. The correct solution is to instead only have apostrophes around the something.exe
and its switches and arguments, like so:
powershell ".\something.exe --switch1 --switch2 … arg1 arg2 …" 2^>^&1 ^| tee test.txt
Notice though, that in this case you have to escape the special cmd-shell characters «>&|» with a «^» each so they only get interpreted by powershell.
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mtee is a small utility which works very well for this purpose. It’s free, source is open, and it Just Works.
You can find it at http://www.commandline.co.uk.
Used in a batch file to display output AND create a log file simultaneously, the syntax looks like this:
someprocess | mtee /+ mylogfile.txt
Where /+ means to append output.
This assumes that you have copied mtee into a folder which is in the PATH, of course.
answered Oct 21, 2011 at 20:36
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I agree with Brian Rasmussen, the unxutils port is the easiest way to do this. In the Batch Files section of his Scripting Pages Rob van der Woude provides a wealth of information on the use MS-DOS and CMD commands. I thought he might have a native solution to your problem and after digging around there I found TEE.BAT, which appears to be just that, an MS-DOS batch language implementation of tee. It is a pretty complex-looking batch file and my inclination would still be to use the unxutils port.
answered Apr 28, 2009 at 7:06
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If you have cygwin in your windows environment path you can use:
dir > a.txt | tail -f a.txt
answered May 16, 2014 at 13:12
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dir 1>a.txt 2>&1 | type a.txt
This will help to redirect both STDOUT and STDERR
answered Nov 2, 2011 at 15:23
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I know this is a very old topic, but in previous answers there is not a full implementation of a real time Tee written in Batch. My solution below is a Batch-JScript hybrid script that use the JScript section just to get the output from the piped command, but the processing of the data is done in the Batch section. This approach have the advantage that any Batch programmer may modify this program to fit specific needs. This program also correctly process the output of CLS command produced by other Batch files, that is, it clear the screen when CLS command output is detected.
@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
rem APATee.bat: Asynchronous (real time) Tee program, Batch-JScript hybrid version
rem Antonio Perez Ayala
rem The advantage of this program is that the data management is written in Batch code,
rem so any Batch programmer may modify it to fit their own needs.
rem As an example of this feature, CLS command is correctly managed
if "%~1" equ "" (
echo Duplicate the Stdout output of a command in the screen and a disk file
echo/
echo anyCommand ^| APATee teeFile.txt [/A]
echo/
echo If /A switch is given, anyCommand output is *appended* to teeFile.txt
goto :EOF
)
if "%2" equ ":TeeProcess" goto TeeProcess
rem Get the output of CLS command
for /F %%a in ('cls') do set "cls=%%a"
rem If /A switch is not provided, delete the file that receives Tee output
if /I "%~2" neq "/A" if exist %1 del %1
rem Create the semaphore-signal file and start the asynchronous Tee process
echo X > Flag.out
if exist Flag.in del Flag.in
Cscript //nologo //E:JScript "%~F0" | "%~F0" %1 :TeeProcess
del Flag.out
goto :EOF
:TeeProcess
rem Wait for "Data Available" signal
if not exist Flag.in goto TeeProcess
rem Read the line sent by JScript section
set line=
set /P line=
rem Set "Data Read" acknowledgement
ren Flag.in Flag.out
rem Check for the standard "End Of piped File" mark
if "!line!" equ ":_EOF_:" exit /B
rem Correctly manage CLS command
if "!line:~0,1!" equ "!cls!" (
cls
set "line=!line:~1!"
)
rem Duplicate the line in Stdout and the Tee output file
echo(!line!
echo(!line!>> %1
goto TeeProcess
@end
// JScript section
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
// Process all lines of Stdin
while ( ! WScript.Stdin.AtEndOfStream ) {
// Read the next line from Stdin
var line = WScript.Stdin.ReadLine();
// Wait for "Data Read" acknowledgement
while ( ! fso.FileExists("Flag.out") ) {
WScript.Sleep(10);
}
// Send the line to Batch section
WScript.Stdout.WriteLine(line);
// Set "Data Available" signal
fso.MoveFile("Flag.out", "Flag.in");
}
// Wait for last "Data Read" acknowledgement
while ( ! fso.FileExists("Flag.out") ) {
WScript.Sleep(10);
}
// Send the standard "End Of piped File" mark
WScript.Stdout.WriteLine(":_EOF_:");
fso.MoveFile("Flag.out", "Flag.in");
answered May 20, 2013 at 3:07
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I was also looking for the same solution, after a little try, I was successfully able to achieve that in Command Prompt. Here is my solution :
@Echo off
for /f "Delims=" %%a IN (xyz.bat) do (
%%a > _ && type _ && type _ >> log.txt
)
@Echo on
It even captures any PAUSE command as well.
answered Dec 2, 2014 at 19:50
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Something like this should do what you need?
%DATE%_%TIME% > c:\a.txt & type c:\a.txt
ipconfig >> c:\a.txt & type c:\a.txt
ping localhost >> c:\a.txt & type c:\a.txt
pause
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answered Apr 5, 2016 at 13:40
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Here’s a sample of what I’ve used based on one of the other answers
@echo off
REM SOME CODE
set __ERROR_LOG=c:\errors.txt
REM set __IPADDRESS=x.x.x.x
REM Test a variable
if not defined __IPADDRESS (
REM Call function with some data and terminate
call :TEE %DATE%,%TIME%,IP ADDRESS IS NOT DEFINED
goto :EOF
)
REM If test happens to be successful, TEE out a message and end script.
call :TEE Script Ended Successful
goto :EOF
REM THE TEE FUNCTION
:TEE
for /f "tokens=*" %%Z in ("%*") do (
> CON ECHO.%%Z
>> "%__ERROR_LOG%" ECHO.%%Z
goto :EOF
)
answered Nov 2, 2011 at 18:17
send output to console, append to console log, delete output from current command
dir >> usb-create.1 && type usb-create.1 >> usb-create.log | type usb-create.1 && del usb-create.1
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answered Jan 23, 2015 at 18:46
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This is not another answer, but more an overview and clarification to the already existed answers like
Displaying Windows command prompt output and redirecting it to a file
and others
I’ve found for myself that there is a set of issues what makes a set of tee implementations are not reliable in the Windows (Windows 7
in mine case).
I need to use specifically a tee implementation because have already uses a batch script with self redirection:
@echo off
setlocal
... some conditions here ..
rem the redirection
"%COMSPEC%" /C call %0 %* 2>&1 | "<path_to_tee_utililty>" ".log\<log_file_name_with_date_and_time>.%~nx0.log"
exit /b
:IMPL
... here the rest of script ...
The script and calls to some utilities inside the script can break the output if used together with a tee utility.
- The gnuwin32 implementation:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
Pros:
- Correctly handles standard output together with a console progress bar, where the
\r
character is heavily used.
Cons:
- Makes console progress bars to draw only in a log file, but it has not duplicated or visible in the console window.
- Throws multiple error messages
Cwrite error: No such file or directory
because seems the cmd interpreter closes the pipe/stdout too early and can not self close after that (spamming until termination). - Does not duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window.
- The wintee implementation:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/wintee/
https://github.com/rbuhl/wintee
Pros:
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
- Does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window.
Cons:
- Incorrectly handles the
\r
character, output is mixed and messed (https://code.google.com/archive/p/wintee/issues/7 ). - Having other issues: https://code.google.com/archive/p/wintee/issues
- The UnxUtils implementation:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/files/unxutils/current/
Pros
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
- Correctly handles the
\r
character. - Does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window.
Cons
Not yet found
- The ss64.net implementation:
http://ss64.net/westlake/nt
http://ss64.net/westlake/nt/tee.zip
Pros:
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
Cons:
- Incorrectly handles the
\r
character, output is mixed and messed - For some reason does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window AFTER a key press.
- The ritchielawrence mtee implementation:
https://ritchielawrence.github.io/mtee
https://github.com/ritchielawrence/mtee
Pros
- Shows a console progress bar both in the console window and in a log file (multiple prints).
- Correctly handles the
\r
character. - Does duplicate/print the output from the
pause
command (Press any key to continue...
) in the console window. - The error code retain feature w/o a need to use workaround with the
doskey
(/E
flag, Windows command interpreter: how to obtain exit code of first piped command )
Cons
-
Does not support forward slash characters in the path to a log file (https://github.com/ritchielawrence/mtee/issues/6 )
-
Has a race condition issue, when can not extract a pipe process exit code because it has closed before it’s access (https://github.com/ritchielawrence/mtee/issues/4 )
So, if you are choosing the tee utility implementation between the above, then a better choice is the UnxUtils
or mtee
.
If you are searching for a better implementation with more features and less issues, then you can use callf
utility:
https://github.com/andry81/contools/tree/HEAD/Utilities/src/callf/help.tpl
You can run instead of:
call test.bat | mtee /E 1.log
This:
callf.exe /ret-child-exit /tee-stdout 1.log /tee-stdout-dup 1 "" "cmd.exe /c call test.bat"
It is better because it can pipe stdout
separately from stderr
and you can even pipe between processes with Administrator privileges isolation using named pipes.
answered Jul 7, 2020 at 9:09
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This is a variation on a previous answer by MTS, however it adds some functionality that might be useful to others. Here is the method that I used:
- A command is set as a variable, that can be used later throughout the code, to output to the command window and append to a log file, using
set _Temp_Msg_Cmd=
- the command has escaped redirection using the carrot
^
character so that the commands are not evaluated initially
- the command has escaped redirection using the carrot
- A temporary file is created with a filename similar to the batch file being run called
%~n0_temp.txt
that uses command line parameter extension syntax%~n0
to get the name of the batch file. - The output is appended to a separate log file
%~n0_log.txt
Here is the sequence of commands:
- The output and error messages are sent to the temporary file
^> %~n0_temp.txt 2^>^&1
- The content of the temporary file is then both:
- appended to the logfile
^& type %~n0_temp.txt ^>^> %~n0_log.txt
- output to the command window
^& type %~n0_temp.txt
- appended to the logfile
- The temporary file with the message is deleted
^& del /Q /F %~n0_temp.txt
Here is the example:
set _Temp_Msg_Cmd= ^> %~n0_temp.txt 2^>^&1 ^& type %~n0_temp.txt ^>^> %~n0_log.txt ^& type %~n0_temp.txt ^& del /Q /F %~n0_temp.txt
This way then the command can simply be appended after later commands in a batch file that looks a lot cleaner:
echo test message %_Temp_Msg_Cmd%
This can be added to the end of other commands as well. As far as I can tell it will work when messages have multiple lines. For example the following command outputs two lines if there is an error message:
net use M: /D /Y %_Temp_Msg_Cmd%
answered Jul 27, 2015 at 16:36
Just like unix.
dir | tee a.txt
Does work On windows XP, it requires mksnt
installed.
It displays on the prompt as well as appends to the file.
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answered May 3, 2013 at 12:47
@echo on
set startDate=%date%
set startTime=%time%
set /a sth=%startTime:~0,2%
set /a stm=1%startTime:~3,2% - 100
set /a sts=1%startTime:~6,2% - 100
fullprocess.bat > C:\LOGS\%startDate%_%sth%.%stm%.%sts%.LOG | fullprocess.bat
This will create a log file with the current datetime and you can the console lines during the process
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answered Dec 3, 2010 at 14:15
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I use a batch subroutine with a «for» statement to get the command output one line at a time and both write that line to a file and output it to the console.
@echo off
set logfile=test.log
call :ExecuteAndTee dir C:\Program Files
Exit /B 0
:ExecuteAndTee
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
echo Executing '%*'
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('%* 2^>^&1') do (echo.%%a & echo.%%a>>%logfile%)
endlocal
Exit /B 0
answered Feb 27, 2014 at 21:45
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If you’re on the CLI, why not use a FOR loop to «DO» whatever you want:
for /F "delims=" %a in ('dir') do @echo %a && echo %a >> output.txt
Great resource on Windows CMD for loops: https://ss64.com/nt/for_cmd.html
The key here is setting the delimeters (delims), that would break up each line of output, to nothing. This way it won’t break on the default of white-space. The %a is an arbitrary letter, but it is used in the «do» section to, well… do something with the characters that were parsed at each line. In this case we can use the ampersands (&&) to execute the 2nd echo command to create-or-append (>>) to a file of our choosing. Safer to keep this order of DO commands in case there’s an issue writing the file, we’ll at least get the echo to the console first. The at sign (@) in front of the first echo suppresses the console from showing the echo-command itself, and instead just displays the result of the command which is to display the characters in %a. Otherwise you’d see:
echo Volume in drive [x] is Windows
Volume in drive [x] is Windows
UPDATE: /F skips blank lines and only fix is to pre-filter the output adding a character to every line (maybe with line-numbers via the command find). Solving this in CLI isn’t quick or pretty. Also, I didn’t include STDERR, so here’s capturing errors as well:
for /F "delims=" %a in ('dir 2^>^&1') do @echo %a & echo %a >> output.txt
Redirecting Error Messages
The carets (^) are there to escape the symbols after them, because the command is a string that’s being interpreted, as opposed to say, entering it directly on the command-line.
answered Feb 6, 2019 at 20:37
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I just found a way to use the perl as alternative, e.g.:
CMD1 | perl -ne "print $_; print STDERR $_;" 2> OUTPUT.TEE
answered Jul 2, 2020 at 11:05
Following helps if you want something really seen on the screen — even if the batch file was redirected to a file. The device CON maybe used also if redirected to a file
Example:
ECHO first line on normal stdout. maybe redirected
ECHO second line on normal stdout again. maybe redirected
ECHO third line is to ask the user. not redirected >CON
ECHO fourth line on normal stdout again. maybe redirected
Also see good redirection description: http://www.p-dd.com/chapter7-page14.html
answered Jul 8, 2009 at 8:52
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How do I display and redirect output
to a file. Suppose if I use dos
command, dir > test.txt ,this command
will redirect output to file test.txt
without displaying the results. how to
write a command to display the output
and redirect output to a file using
DOS i.e., windows command prompt, not
in UNIX/LINUX.
You may find these commands in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ) useful.
var str output
lf > $output
echo $output # Will show output on screen.
echo $output > "test.txt" # Will write output to file test.txt.
system start "test.txt" # Will open file test.txt for viewing/editing.
answered Jan 10, 2010 at 21:35
This works in real time but is also kind a ugly and the performance is slow. Not well tested either:
@echo off
cls
SET MYCOMMAND=dir /B
ECHO File called 'test.bat' > out.txt
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%I in (`%MYCOMMAND%`) do (
ECHO %%I
ECHO %%I >> out.txt
)
pause
answered Sep 20, 2012 at 17:48
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An alternative is to tee stdout to stderr within your program:
in java:
System.setOut(new PrintStream(new TeeOutputStream(System.out, System.err)));
Then, in your dos batchfile: java program > log.txt
The stdout will go to the logfile and the stderr (same data) will show on the console.
answered Nov 23, 2012 at 19:50
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I install perl on most of my machines so an answer using perl: tee.pl
my $file = shift || "tee.dat";
open $output, ">", $file or die "unable to open $file as output: $!";
while(<STDIN>)
{
print $_;
print $output $_;
}
close $output;
dir | perl tee.pl
or
dir | perl tee.pl dir.bat
crude and untested.
answered Feb 19, 2014 at 15:39
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Работа с командной строкой¶
Командная строка позволяет вводить и выполнять команды операционной системы и другие компьютерные команды. Вводя команды, можно выполнять на компьютере различные задачи, не пользуясь мышью или сенсорным вводом.
В разделе перечислены базовые приемы работы в командной строке Windows.
Запуск командной строки¶
Для запуска командной строки воспользуйтесь одним из следующих способов:
- «Пуск → Выполнить» (или клавиши
Win+R
) введитеcmd
и нажмите клавишуEnter
; - «Пуск → Все программы → Стандартные → Командная строка»;
- «Пуск → Поиск → Командная строка».
Ввод команд¶
Команды вводятся посредством ввода с клавиатуры. Простейшая команда help
выводит список всех доступных команд. Также вы можете просмотреть полный перечень команд в статье Список команд Windows ( Windows CMD ).
Для вывода справки по конкретной команде введите help название_команды
, например:
Перечень основных команд и примеры их использования приведены в разделе Основные команды данного руководства.
Автодополнение путей файлов¶
Чтобы не набирать вручную весь путь к файлам используется клавиша Tab
на клавиатуре. Она автодополняет названия директорий и файлов, например, чтобы ввести название папки User
, достаточно ввести первую букву и нажать клавишу Tab
, будет подставлено соответствующее значение.
Если на букву U
начинается несколько директорий или файлов, то при каждом последующем нажатии Tab
будет происходить перебор названий. Чтобы произвести перебор в обратном порядке, нажимайте Tab
c зайжатой клавишей Shift
.
Если папка состоит из нескольких слов, разделенных пробелом или из кириллических символов, то весь путь берется в кавычки, например, cd "C:\Documents and Settings"
Копирование текста в/из командной строки¶
По умолчанию копирование текста из командной строки отключено. Чтобы его включить необходимо:
- Нажать правой кнопкой мыши на заголовок окна командной строки и выбрать пункт «Свойства»;
- Установить галочки напротив «Выделение мышью» и «Быстрая вставка»;
Для копирования текста из командной строки достаточно выделить текст и щелкнуть правой кнопкой мыши, выделенный текст скопируется в буфер обмена. Для вставки текста в командную строку также используется нажатие правой кнопкой мыши.
Вывод информации в текстовый файл и перенаправление данных¶
Информацию, выводимую программами в командную строку, можно перенаправить в файл. Делается это с помощью символа >
, например, systeminfo > C:\Users\mazhartsev\Desktop\test.txt
.
Если файл не существует, то он будет создан. Если существует, то он будет перезаписан. Чтобы записать данные в конец файла, необходимо воспользоваться командой >>
, например: systeminfo >> C:\Users\mazhartsev\Desktop\test.txt
Данные команды называются операторами перенаправления.
Описание | Оператор перенаправления |
---|---|
> |
Записывает данные на выходе команды вместо командной строки в файл или на устройство, например, на принтер. |
< |
Читает поток входных данных команды из файла, а не с клавиатуры. |
>> |
Добавляет выходные данные команды в конец файла, не удаляя при этом существующей информации из файла. |
>& |
Считывает данные на выходе одного дескриптора как входные данные для другого дескриптора. |
<& |
Считывает входные данные одного дескриптора как выходные данные другого дескриптора. |
| |
Считывает выходные данные одной команды и записывает их на вход другой команды. Эта процедура известна под названием «канал». |
What to Know
- The > redirection operator goes between the command and the file name, like ipconfig > output.txt.
- If the file already exists, it’ll be overwritten. If it doesn’t, it will be created.
- The >> operator appends the file. Instead of overwriting the file, it appends the command output to the end of it.
Use a redirection operator to redirect the output of a command to a file. All the information displayed in Command Prompt after running a command can be saved to a file, which you can reference later or manipulate however you like.
How to Use Redirection Operators
While there are several redirection operators, two, in particular, are used to output the results of a command to a file: the greater-than sign (>) and the double greater-than sign (>>).
The easiest way to learn how to use these redirection operators is to see some examples:
Export Network Settings to a File
ipconfig /all > networksettings.txt
In this example, all the information normally seen on screen after running ipconfig /all, is saved to a file by the name of networksettings.txt. It’s stored in the folder to the left of the command, the root of the D: drive in this case.
The > redirection operator goes between the command and the filename. If the file already exists, it’ll be overwritten. If it doesn’t already exist, it will be created.
Although a file will be created if it doesn’t already exist, folders will not. To save the command output to a file in a specific folder that doesn’t yet exist, first, create the folder and then run the command. Make folders without leaving Command Prompt with the mkdir command.
Export Ping Results to a File
ping 192.168.86.1 > "C:\Users\jonfi\Desktop\Ping Results.txt"
Here, when the ping command is executed, Command Prompt outputs the results to a file by the name of Ping Results.txt located on the jonfi user’s desktop, at C:\Users\jonfi\Desktop. The entire file path in wrapped in quotes because a space involved.
Remember, when using the > redirection operator, the file specified is created if it doesn’t already exist and is overwritten if it does exist.
The Append Redirection Operator
The double-arrow operator appends, rather than replaces, a file:
ipconfig /all >> \\server\files\officenetsettings.log
This example uses the >> redirection operator which functions in much the same way as the > operator, only instead of overwriting the output file if it exists, it appends the command output to the end of the file.
Here’s an example of what this LOG file might look like after a command has been exported to it:
The >> redirection operator is useful when you’re collecting similar information from different computers or commands, and you’d like all that data in a single file.
The above redirection operator examples are within the context of Command Prompt, but you can also use them in a BAT file. When you use a BAT file to pipe a command’s output to a text file, the exact same commands described above are used, but instead of pressing Enter to run them, you just have to open the BAT file.
Use Redirection Operators in Batch Files
Redirection operators work in batch files by including the command just as you would from the Command Prompt:
tracert yahoo.com > C:\yahootracert.txt
The above is an example of how to make a batch file that uses a redirection operator with the tracert command.
The yahootracert.txt file (shown above) will be created on the C: drive several seconds after executing the sample.bat file. Like the other examples above, the file shows everything Command Prompt would have revealed if the redirection operator wasn’t used.
Export Text Results in Terminal
Terminal provides an easy way to create a text file containing the contents of whatever you see in Command Prompt. Although the same redirection operator described above works in Terminal, too, this method is useful for when you didn’t use it.
To save the results from a Terminal window, right-click the tab you’re working in and select Export Text. You can then choose where to save the TXT file.
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