Redirection Question

[alleypuppy]

Is it possible to redirect the output of a command to a file and still read the output of the command in the CMD window as it's executing? I know you can redirect output using

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[command] > [file] 
or
[command] >> [file]

but it always nullifies the output on the screen.

Thanks for any help!

[Ed Dyreen]

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That would be great, I tried something similar in the past:

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> "file.TMP" echo.This Works
< "file.TMP" set /p $str=
echo.$str=%$str%_

But some assembly wizard, could easily write a COM to do this, not me though. I just have a wild imagination:

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echo.This Works |STREAM.COM "File.TMP"

[alleypuppy]

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That would be great, I tried something similar in the past:

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> "file.TMP" echo.This Works
< "file.TMP" set /p $str=
echo.$str=%$str%_

Hmmm... that works, but what if the command prompts you to do something? It is only shown after the command completes.

[dbenham]

You want the equivalent of the Unix tee utility. There is no native Windows equivalent (unless you use PowerShell).

There are many ports of Unix utilities available for Windows, some of them free. I think the GnuWin CoreUtils for Windows package has a tee that will work.

Dave Benham