Windows command prompt log to a file

Question

I d like to easily save the log of the Windows command prompt into a file  Is there any alternative to select everything and right-click on copy

User · Accepted Answer

You can redirect the output of a cmd prompt to a file using > or >> to append to a file.

i.e.

echo Hello World >C:\output.txt
echo Hello again! >>C:\output.txt

or

mybatchfile.bat >C:\output.txt

Note that using > will automatically overwrite the file if it already exists.

You also have the option of redirecting stdin, stdout and stderr.

See here for a complete list of options.

User · Answer

First method  For Windows 7 and above users  Windows PowerShell give you this option  Users with windows version less than 7 can download PowerShell online and install it   Steps    type PowerShell in search area and click on  Windows PowerShell  If you have a  bat  batch  file go to step 3 OR copy your commands to a file and save it with  bat extension  e g  file bat  run the  bat file with following command  PS  location  gt   lt path to bat file gt  file bat   Tee-Object -file log txt   This will generate a log txt file with all command prompt output in it  Advantage is that you can also the output on command prompt   Second method  You can use file redirection         as suggest by Bali C above    I will recommend first method if you have lots of commands to run or a script to run  I will recommend last method if there is only few commands to run

User · Answer

In cmd when you use   or    the output will be only written on the file  Is it possible to see the output in the cmd windows and also save it in a file   Something similar if you use teraterm  when you can start saving all the log in a file meanwhile you use the console and view it  only for ssh  telnet and serial

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