What the question says.
Ultimately what I want is to execute gcc and capture the output if there's an error. The problem is errors are written to stderr instead of stdout. On Linux I can do
gcc foo.c 2>&1
How can I accomplish this on Windows?
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There is. Simply right click into the console window, select Mark. With your mouse select the desired area and right click. Now you can paste it into a text file with Ctrl-V.
If you need the output of a program into a text file, run it like this:
myprogram.exe > myfile.txt
See here about redirecting:
1. Using command redirection operators
2. Redirecting Error Messages from Command Prompt: STDERR/STDOUT
You can do what you want like this: D:\>dir 1> test.txt 2> testerr.txt
PeterK
2010-08-11 16:05:47
Yes! But not manually ... And yes, automatically.
Richard
2010-08-11 16:07:26
+1 Didn't know I could do that
NullUserException
2010-08-11 16:07:39
I tried that. But, at the command prompt, the output to appear ... But the output is not displayed when pointing to a text file.
Richard
2010-08-11 16:09:13
your program/script will have to get that info from the text file. There is a util somewhere called 'tee' that redirects stdout to a file while still showing it on the console.
Kelly French
2010-08-11 16:20:19
Yeah, is it. Thanks... How its works? Why i can't get the output just with:`gcc > myfile.txt`Why i need to put 2, this way? gcc 2> myfile.txt
Richard
2010-08-11 16:22:23
@Richard: `>` redirection is the same as `1>` (which is `stdout` redirection). `2>` redirection is `stderr` redirection. All-in-all, this is exactly the same as in Linux.
pipitas
2010-08-11 18:30:32
@all: I'm puzzled this answer got so many upvotes. The correct and short answer to question `How do I do the same in Windows?` should have been: `You do it the same way as in Linux.`
pipitas
2010-08-11 18:31:55
A:
If you want the output of a particular command, there's a simple way to push console output to a file.
Here's a trivial example using the 'dir' command (the leading > represents your prompt):
>dir > diroutput.txt
djacobson
2010-08-11 16:08:23
To be fair, the question looks like that because I edited it. On the other hand, [this](http://stackoverflow.com/posts/3460370/revisions) is what it looked like before I did it.
NullUserException
2010-08-12 00:31:40