CMD Export all the screen content to a text file

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In command prompt - How do I export all the content of the screen to a text file basically a copy command  just not by using right-clicking and the clipboard   This command works  but only for the commands you executed  not the actual output as well  doskey  HISTORY  gt  history txt

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From command prompt Run as Administrator. Example below is to print a list of Services running on your PC run the command below:

net start > c:\netstart.txt

You should see a copy of the text file you just exported with a listing all the PC services running at the root of your C:\ drive.

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If your batch file is not interactive and you don t need to see it run then this should work    echo off call file bat  gt textfile txt 2 gt  amp 1   Otherwise use a tee filter   There are many  some not NT compatible   SFK the Swiss Army Knife has a tee feature and is still being developed   Maybe that will work for you

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If you want to append a file instead of constantly making a new one deleting the old one s content  use double  gt  marks  A single  gt  mark will overwrite all the file s content   Overwrite file  MyCommand exe gt file txt    This will open file txt if it already exists and overwrite the data  or create a new file and fill it with your output  Append file from its end-point  MyCommand exe gt  gt file txt    This will append file txt from its current end of file if it already exists  or create a new file and fill it with your output      Update  1  advanced    My batch-fu has improved over time  so here s some minor updates    If you want to differentiate between error output and normal output for a program that correctly uses Standard streams  STDOUT STDERR  you can do this with minor changes to the syntax  I ll just use  gt  for overwriting for these examples  but they work perfectly fine with  gt  gt  for append  in regards to file-piping output re-direction   The 1 before the  gt  gt  or  gt  is the flag for STDOUT  If you need to actually output the number one or two before the re-direction symbols  this can lead to strange  unintuitive errors if you don t know about this mechanism  That s especially relevant when outputting a single result number into a file  2 before the re-direction symbols is for STDERR   Now that you know that you have more than one stream available  this is a good time to show the benefits of outputting to nul  Now  outputting to nul works the same way conceptually as outputting to a file  You don t see the content in your console  Instead of it going to file or your console output  it goes into the void   STDERR to file and suppress STDOUT  MyCommand exe 1 gt nul 2 gt errors txt   STDERR to file to only log errors  Will keep STDOUT in console  MyCommand exe 2 gt errors txt   STDOUT to file and suppress STDERR  MyCommand exe 1 gt file txt 2 gt nul  STDOUT only to file  Will keep STDERR in console  MyCommand exe 1 gt file txt  STDOUT to one file and STDERR to another file   MyCommand exe 1 gt stdout txt 2 gt errors txt   The only caveat I have here is that it can create a 0-byte file for an unused stream if one of the streams never gets used  Basically  if no errors occurred  you might end up with a 0-byte errors txt file   Update  2  I started noticing weird behavior when writing console apps that wrote directly to STDERR  and realized that if I wanted my error output to go to the same file when using basic piping  I either had to combine streams 1 and 2 or just use STDOUT  The problem with that problem is I didn t know about the correct way to combine streams  which is this    command   gt  outputfile 2 gt  amp 1   Therefore  if you want all STDOUT and STDERR piped into the same stream  make sure to use that like so    MyCommand exe  gt  file txt 2 gt  amp 1  The redirector actually defaults to 1 gt  or 1 gt  gt   even if you don t explicitly use 1 in front of it if you don t use a number in front of it  and the 2 gt  amp 1 combines the streams    Update  3  simple   Null for Everything  If you want to completely suppress STDOUT and STDERR you can do it this way  As a warning not all text pipes use STDOUT and STDERR but it will work for a vast majority of use cases    STD  to null  MyCommand exe gt nul 2 gt  amp 1   Copying a CMD or Powershell session s command output  If all you want is the command output from a CMD or Powershell session that you just finished up  or any other shell for that matter you can usually just select that console from that session  CTRL   A to select all content  then CTRL   C to copy the content  Then you can do whatever you like with the copied content while it s in your clipboard

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If you are looking for each command separately   To export all the output of the command prompt in text files  Simply follow the following syntax   C  gt   syntax   gt file txt   The above command will create result of syntax in file txt  Where new file txt will be created on the current folder that you are in   For example   C Result gt  dir  gt file txt   To copy the whole session  Try this   Copy  amp  Paste a command session as follows   1   At the end of your session  click the upper left corner to display the menu  Then select   Edit - gt  Select all  2   Again  click the upper left corner to display the menu  Then select   Edit - gt  Copy  3   Open your favorite text editor and use Ctrl V or your normal Paste operation to paste in the text

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How about this    lt command gt   gt   lt filename txt gt   amp   lt filename txt gt    Example   ipconfig  all  gt  network txt  amp  network txt   This will give the results in Notepad instead of the command prompt

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Just see this page  in cmd type   Command   clip   Then open a   Txt file and Paste  That s it  Done

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If you want to output ALL verbosity  not just stdout  But also any printf statements made by the program  any warnings  infos  etc  you have to add 2 gt  amp 1 at the end of the command line   In your case  the command will be   Program exe  gt  file txt 2 gt  amp 1

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