Start program without waiting and redirect output

[David Marcus]

How do I start a console program in a btm file, redirect its output, and have the btm file continue? I tried

start "Title" /tab Foo.exe > Out.txt

This doesn't work. In fact, sometimes Take Command stops working and then restarts. Also tried

detach Foo.exe > Out.txt

This doesn't work either.

TCC 12.00.42 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]

 

[Steve Fabian]

---- Original Message ----
From: David Marcus
| How do I start a console program in a btm file, redirect its output,
| and have the btm file continue? I tried
|
| start "Title" /tab Foo.exe > Out.txt
|
| This doesn't work. In fact, sometimes Take Command stops working and
| then restarts. Also tried
|
| detach Foo.exe > Out.txt
|
| This doesn't work either.
|
| TCC 12.00.42 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]
---- End Original Message ----

I would try this:

Foo.exe > Out.txt

--
HTH, Steve

 

[David Marcus]

I would try this:

Foo.exe > Out.txt

I want the btm file to continue, not wait for Foo.exe to finish. I've got a program that takes several hours to run. I want to do several runs concurrently, since my computer has multiple cores. I can open tabs manually and paste the correct command into each, but it would be simpler for me if I could launch all the processes from a btm file.

 

[Charles Dye]

How do I start a console program in a btm file, redirect its output, and have the btm file continue? I tried

start "Title" /tab Foo.exe > Out.txt

This doesn't work. In fact, sometimes Take Command stops working and then restarts. Also tried

detach Foo.exe > Out.txt

This doesn't work either.

TCC 12.00.42 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]

Perhaps:

start "Title" /tab %_cmdspec Foo.exe > Out.txt

(I don't know anything about Foo.exe, but it probably doesn't expect redirection characters in its command line.)

 

[vefatica]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:55:49 -0500, David Marcus <> wrote:

|How do I start a console program in a btm file, redirect its output, and have the btm file continue? I tried
|
|start "Title" /tab Foo.exe > Out.txt
|
|This doesn't work. In fact, sometimes Take Command stops working and then restarts. Also tried
|
|detach Foo.exe > Out.txt
|
|This doesn't work either.
|
|TCC 12.00.42 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]

This, for example, works:

start /b %comspec /c netstat ^> netstat.txt

Note, %comspec is needed to provide the redirection, /b prevents an unsightly
new console, /c causes the new instance of TCC to exit when the (netstat)
command has finished. and excaping the redirection symbol makes it part of the
command sent to %comspec.

 

[vefatica]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:07:00 -0500, Steve Fábián <> wrote:

|---- Original Message ----
|From: David Marcus
|| How do I start a console program in a btm file, redirect its output,
|| and have the btm file continue? I tried
||
|| start "Title" /tab Foo.exe > Out.txt
||
|| This doesn't work. In fact, sometimes Take Command stops working and
|| then restarts. Also tried
||
|| detach Foo.exe > Out.txt
||
|| This doesn't work either.
||
|| TCC 12.00.42 x64 Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7600]
|---- End Original Message ----
|
|I would try this:
|
| Foo.exe > Out.txt

The BTM will wait for that to finish. He wants the BTM to continue while that
happens.

 

[David Marcus]

This, for example, works:

start /b %comspec /c netstat ^> netstat.txt

Thanks. That's just what I needed. I added quotes around %comspec. It also works with ^>&, if I want to redirect standard error, too.