Dos pipe to file and screen

Jason, your code is a little wonky so I'll post a complete solution. This will overwrite your input file. As a separate batch append. Code: Select all type "temp. Re: Piped input and output to a batch file 6 Post by dbenham » Sun Dec 25, am A batch file can process lines piped into it. Last edited by dbenham on Thu Jan 05, am, edited 1 time in total.

Re: Piped input and output to a batch file 8 Post by Aacini » Wed Jan 04, am The Batch file below take the prefix and suffix from parameters 1 and 2. Anyway, the output is always sent to the standard output the screen that is the way that a "filter program" must work. The filter program should not terminate upon the first empty line. Dave Benham.

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He is also a systems administrator for an IT firm in Texas serving small businesses. Tweet Share Email. If it doesn't, it will be created. Instead of overwriting the output file, it appends the command output to the end of the file. Was this page helpful?

Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Tell us why! More from Lifewire. If you, like me, struggled to find GnuWin32's tee package, you'll find it in gnuwin Show 4 more comments. Check this out: wintee No need for cygwin. I did encounter and report some issues though. Davor Josipovic Davor Josipovic 4, 1 1 gold badge 34 34 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges.

Why the down vote? UNIX utility tee outputs real time. Thumbs up! This should be the accepted answer. Brian Webster Andy Welch Andy Welch 4 4 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. This is useful when there was some form of error in your command and you still want to see the log file on the console. See Microsoft's article on this. Unfortunately there is no such thing. Zombo 1. Daniel Rikowski Daniel Rikowski 68k 56 56 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

A simple C console application would do the trick: using System; using System. Generic; using System. Add new StreamWriter file ; outputs. Add Console. ReadBlock buffer, 0, buffer. Length ; outputs. For example: dir CopyToFiles files1. Richard Richard 1, 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. That's a tough one :- — paxdiablo. You don't need visual studio to compile that, the commandline tools are actually free.

Visual Studio Express is free as well, but I would still just use tee for this. Upvote to you because this is what I was looking for. I don't think this outputs to the console and the files at the same time does it? Show 2 more comments. I use this quite a bit in batch files to log and display messages: ECHO Print line to screen and log to file. And that isn't a hard problem to solve.

Yeah, I guess this addresses a slightly different problem from what the original poster was asking. I believe this is the correct answer to the original question and should be marked as so. This is how I've done it for years, though I love the simple " " temp file. I've always done "tmp. Yeah, delete it afterwards. This is a good approach but I had problems with some errors not getting captured. Putting the type commands on separate lines in a subroutine fixed that though. Just what I needed for my application.

This assumes that you have copied mtee into a folder which is in the PATH, of course. Mark Mark 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. This seems to wait until the output is complete also before outputting to either the file or console. As stated, you can redirect the output of an executable in the current directory like so: powershell ". The obvious solution would be to use something like this: powershell ".

I tried this when building pyqt5. All of that is completely wrong. It doesn't work at all for me. The last command gives 'tee' is not recognized as an internal or external command for obvious reasons. Could be a reference to the PowerShell Tee-Object cmdlet - technet. PavelP I guess, your issue was with the last example!? The command was missing the necessary escaping of special characters exposed to cmd.

It has now been edited and should work that way! Steve Crane Steve Crane 4, 5 5 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 63 63 bronze badges. That tee. Hope OP checks this out. Note that using TEE. If you're going to use Cygwin, it comes with tee. Cygwin tee doesn't seem to work on the dos prompt the way it works in bash. This is a nice workaround.

Thank you! This doesn't work. I tried using this to launch the JBoss run. There are problems with this method I have tried python. FileExists "Flag. MoveFile "Flag. Aacini Aacini 61k 12 12 gold badges 65 65 silver badges 97 97 bronze badges. Any way this could capture the stderr output? I have an annoying exe that outputs everything on the standard error stream i.