Is there a simple way to log everything that appears in the command line window? I have a batch file that is running some things but everything flies by so fast I cannot see if any errors have occurred.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Is there a simple way to log everything that appears in the command line window? I have a batch file that is running some things but everything flies by so fast I cannot see if any errors have occurred.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
You can redirect the results to a file:
C:\> myBatch.bat > myBatch.log
The above will redirect standard out to a file called myBatch.log.
If you need to redirect standard error to this file as well, you can append 2>&1
the the command:
C:\> myBatch.bat > myBatch.log 2>&1
EDIT:
note that the single >
will overwrite a file and start from scratch and >>
will append the captured output to the end of the file. You should be careful when using this syntax in a set of consecutive commands to use >
on the first call to start a file, and then >>
on all subsequent calls to add to the end of the new file.
For example, a simple bat:
@echo off
echo start > test.log
date /t >> test.log
time /t >> test.log
echo done >> test.log
will generate a file named test.log filled with the following content:
start
Tue 09/22/2009
03:10 PM
done