Printing Batch file results to a text file

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I ve created a simple batch file to reorganize a set of files folders  It s working as it should  but I need to print the results to a log file  I need to output the results of each action  creating a directory  moving a file  rename deleting a file   When I use command    results txt all I can get out of it is  1 file s  moved   a ton of times  Here s the code   FOR   a IN  C  scans   txt  DO CALL  read    na TREE  f  gt  gt  tree txt  GOTO  EOF   read  set FILE  1 FOR  f  tokens 1 2    b IN   FILE  txt  DO CALL  makeDir   b   c  GOTO  EOF   makeDir  set ACCOUNT  1  set CHECK  2 mkdir  ACCOUNT  CALL  move  GOTO  EOF   move MOVE  FILE  gif  ACCOUNT  REN  ACCOUNT   FILE  gif  CHECK  gif DEL  FILE  txt  GOTO  EOF   How can I print to the log file  results txt  whenever an action is performed   EDIT  new code w  echoes    echo off FOR   a IN  C  scans   txt  DO CALL  read    na TREE  f  gt  gt  tree txt  GOTO  EOF   read  set FILE  1 FOR  f  tokens 1 2    b IN   FILE  txt  DO CALL  makeDir   b   c  GOTO  EOF   makeDir  set ACCOUNT  1  set CHECK  2 mkdir  ACCOUNT   echo Made directory for  ACCOUNT   gt  gt  results txt CALL  move  GOTO  EOF   move MOVE  FILE  gif  ACCOUNT   echo  FILE  moved to  ACCOUNT  REN  ACCOUNT   FILE  gif  CHECK  gif  echo  ACCOUNT   FILE  renamed  CHECK   gt  gt  results txt DEL  FILE  txt  echo  FILE  deleted   gt  gt  results txt  GOTO  EOF

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Step 1  Simply put all the required code in a  MAIN BAT  file   Step 2  Create another bat file  say MainCaller bat  and just copy paste these 3 lines of code   REM THE MAIN FILE WILL BE CALLED FROM HERE           CD  File Path Where Main bat is located  MAIN BAT  gt  log txt   Step 3  Just double click  MainCaller bat    All the output will be logged into the text file named  log

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For Print Result to text file   we can follow   echo  test data   gt  test txt   This will create test txt file and written  test data   If you want to append then   echo  test data   gt  gt  test txt

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You can add this piece of code to the top of your batch file    Echo off SET LOGFILE MyLogFile log call  Logit  gt  gt   LOGFILE   exit  b 0   Logit    The rest of your code           It basically redirects the output of the  Logit method to the LOGFILE  The exit command is to ensure the batch exits after executing  Logit

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There s nothing wrong with your redirection of standard out to a file  Move and mkdir commands do not output anything  If you really need to have a log trail of those commands  then you ll need to explicitly echo to standard out indicating what you just executed   The batch file  example    ECHO OFF cd bob ECHO I just did this  cd bob   Run from command line   myfile bat  gt  gt  out txt   or  myfile bat  gt  out txt

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For showing result of batch file in text file  you can use  this command  chdir  gt  test txt   This command will redirect result to test txt   When you open test txt you will found current path of directory in test txt

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Have you tried moving DEL  FILE  txt  to after  echo  FILE  deleted     results txt so that it looks like this    echo  FILE  deleted   gt  gt  results txt DEL  FILE  txt

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