In cmd.exe if I run any command, I can see the output on the console, e.g, dir shows a list of all files on the console. But if I use dir | clip, it puts all the output on clipboard.
How to put output on console and clipboard at the same time?
You could use a 3rd party program called paste to display the contents of your clipboard, which is the actual command's output:
http://www.c3scripts.com/tutorials/msdos/paste.html
The problem with running your command twice as suggested in dinidu's answer is that if for whatever reason the output is different on the subsequent run you will not see the same output on your console than what is on your clipboard.
So something like this:
dir | clip & paste
Try this
c:\> dir & dir|clip
I want to redirect the statements it puts on the console into a file in windows batch code. I am using the net stop command to stop a service.
When I do this:
net stop SPTimerV4 2>> mylog.log
it appends error text into the file. But it still prints the regular text on the console:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service is stopping.
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service was stopped successfully.
How can I even redirect this to a file?
Thanks
net stop SPTimerV4 >> mylog.log 2>&1 is what you're looking for.
This works by redirecting all normal output to the log file (the >>) and redirecting error output a copy of the normal output at that moment, which is appending to a file.
Because it redirects to a copy, you can't actually switch them around (eg. 2>&1 1>> mylog.log won't work)
For more information regarding redirection, please look here
I have the below code that executes and stores the output to a text file, and then display the output to console.
robocopy %TOBEZIPPED% %TEMPDIR% *.* /E > Log.txt & type Log.txt
but since I'm using the robocopy command that shows progress while it is copying, I would like it to show as it was intended and then store the output (maybe history of the command) to a text file..
How can I do it? I've tried doskey /history from a google search but can't still solve my issue.
Hope someone can help me.. Thanks in advance..
EDIT: I have searched related questions but have not found the same with what I wanted.. please note that the result of output should be displayed first normally (not echoed or typed, see robocopy command) before redirecting it to the output file.. so it's like command will display first as usual, like a command history - after execution, will then be redirected to an output file..
For Shell only:
Use tee:
tee is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) using standard streams which reads standard input and writes it to both standard output and one or more files, effectively duplicating its input.
e.g.
robocopy %TOBEZIPPED% %TEMPDIR% *.* /E | tee -a Log.txt
If you want to do it in windows you need to use PowerShell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell . This will provide you tee command to be executable on windows.
I want to display the content of a text file in a CMD window. In addition, I want to see the new lines that added to file, like tail -f command in Unix.
You can use the more command. For example:
more filename.txt
Take a look at GNU utilities for Win32 or download it:
We can use the 'type' command to see file contents in cmd.
Example -
type abc.txt
More information can be found HERE.
I don't think there is a built-in function for that
xxxx.txt > con
This opens the files in the default text editor in windows...
type xxxx.txt
This displays the file in the current window. Maybe this has params you can use...
There is a similar question here: CMD.EXE batch script to display last 10 lines from a txt file
So there is a "more" command to display a file from the given line, or you can use the GNU Utilities for Win32 what bryanph suggested in his link.
To show content of a file:
type file.txt - cmd
cat file.txt - bash/powershell
You can use the 'more' command to see the content of the file:
more filename.txt
Using a single PowerShell command to retrieve the file ending:
powershell -nologo "& "Get-Content -Wait c:\logFile.log -Tail 10"
It applies to PowerShell 3.0 and newer.
Another option is to create a file called TAIL.CMD with this code:
powershell -nologo "& "Get-Content -Wait %1 -Tail %2"
To do this, you can use Microsoft's more advanced command-line shell called "Windows PowerShell." It should come standard on the latest versions of Windows, but you can download it from Microsoft if you don't already have it installed.
To get the last five lines in the text file simply read the file using Get-Content, then have Select-Object pick out the last five items/lines for you:
Get-Content c:\scripts\test.txt | Select-Object -last 5
Source: Using the Get-Content Cmdlet
You can do that in some methods:
One is the type command: type filename
Another is the more command: more filename
With more you can also do that: type filename | more
The last option is using a for
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%A in (filename) do (echo.%%A)
This will go for each line and display it's content. This is an equivalent of the type command, but it's another method of reading the content.
If you are asking what to use, use the more command as it will make a pause.
If you want it to display the content of the file live, and update when the file is altered, just use this script:
#echo off
:start
cls
type myfile.txt
goto start
That will repeat forever until you close the cmd window.
There is no built in option available with Windows. To constantly monitor logs you can use this free application BareTailPro.
You can get the TAIL utility from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools.
Here are additional details -- Tail command for Windows (CMD).
If you want to display for example all .config (or .ini) file name and file content into one doc for user reference (and by this I mean user not knowing shell command i.e. 95% of them), you can try this :
FORFILES /M *myFile.ini /C "cmd /c echo File name : #file >> %temp%\stdout.txt && type #path >> %temp%\stdout.txt && echo. >> %temp%\stdout.txt" | type %temp%\stdout.txt
Explanation :
ForFiles : loop on a directory (and child, etc) each file meeting criteria
able to return the current file name being process (#file)
able to return the full path file being process (#path)
Type : Output the file content
Ps : The last pipe command is pointing the %temp% file and output the aggregate content. If you wish to copy/paste in some documentation, just open the stdout.txt file in textpad.
You can use either more filename.[extension] or type filename.[extension]
tail -3 d:\text_file.txt
tail -1 d:\text_file.txt
I assume this was added to Windows cmd.exe at some point.
I'm getting familiar with VS2008. I made a batch file, with some Echo statements.
I have the batch file running after a successful build.
Is there a console window that I may see the echo outputs?
If I'm understanding you correctly, look at the Output window.
To get the output window, Go to View -> Output or Ctrl+W, O
To display the Output window, select Output from the View menu.