Given a windows .cmd file abc.cmd
abc.cmd > output.log
The above command line operation would save the output of the execution to output.log file.
Are there options for running this command so as to create multiple copies of this log. That is, I want one copy created in one location, and another in a different location.
Please do not ask my to run a copy command. I am looking for command line "options".
Any Windows implementation of the unix tee command would work perfectly. There are free options out there. I like to use the GNU utilities for Windows, which includes tee.exe.
Usage is simple:
abc.cmd | tee out1.txt >out2.txt
Or, you could write your own implementation of tee using Windows Scripting Host (WSH) - no exe to download! triggeradeadcat attempted to do so, but that implementation is flawed because it uses line based input/output instead of character based. It will not work well if the command has interactive prompts and responses on the same line.
Below is a handy JScript implementation that I have used in many projects. I use hybrid JScript/batch techniques so that the utility can be called directly without having to specify CSCRIPT.
@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /* Harmless hybrid line that begins a JScript comment
::--- Batch section within JScript comment that calls the internal JScript ----
@echo off
cscript //E:JScript //nologo "%~f0" %*
exit /b
----- End of JScript comment, beginning of normal JScript ------------------*/
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var mode=2;
if (WScript.Arguments.Count()==2) {mode=8;}
var out = fso.OpenTextFile(WScript.Arguments(0),mode,true);
var chr;
while( !WScript.StdIn.AtEndOfStream ) {
chr=WScript.StdIn.Read(1);
WScript.StdOut.Write(chr);
out.Write(chr);
}
Again, the usage is simple:
abc.cmd | tee out1.txt >out2.txt
No there is no such command line options present as already commented by others but you can run the command multiple times redirecting them to different files like below
date > D:\Testing\test.log & date > D:\Testing\test1.log
So in your case it would be like
abc.cmd > output.log & abc.cmd > output1.log
From the site you posted:
command > fileA > fileB - Redirect output to separate files.
Is that not what you're looking for?
fileB and not two copies.
Set Inp = WScript.Stdin
Set Outp = Wscript.Stdout
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set file = fso.CreateTextFile(wscript.Arguments(0), vbtrue)
Do Until Inp.AtEndOfStream
Line=Inp.readline
outp.writeline Line
file.writeline Line
Loop
Haven't tested.
dir |cscript tee.vbs filename1.txt > filename2.txt
copy output.log \path\to\new\location\copy1.log>is a redirection operator, not a command, and does not have any options.