Is there a way to log a DOS/CMD prompt?

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed May 05, 2004 4:57 pm

Title says all.

Any utility where I can log a DOS or a WinNT CMD window kind of what they have in Linux?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed May 05, 2004 10:56 pm

in NT, it has that, but only for the current session, and it works weird. try hitting the up and down keys.

I guess you could hit cygwin.com, and get yourself a bash shell.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed May 05, 2004 11:59 pm

Just to add onto what flip said, you can set how many lines it'll keep in its buffer.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:37 pm

For command-specific logging, you can just add " > [filename]" to your commands.

I.e.
dir > test.txt
will save the directory contents to text.txt.

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:55 pm

omg just wanted to post the same.

other options are possible,

dir >prn

prints the result if your printer supports dos printing, dir /p shows it page by page etc.
works for most other commands too.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:11 pm

dir /more does page by page also

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:16 pm

Merlin, don't ya mean "dir | more"?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:40 pm

yes, sorry it's the pipe symbol.

Delkian · Post by **Delkian** » Mon May 10, 2004 5:50 am

There's no need to list all different command-line options for different commands, though, just list one: "foo /?" gives information on command-line parameters and stuff for foo.

Doesn't apply to pipes, of course, since they aren't parameters for commands.

Also, Win2k (and I guess XP and stuff) seems (to my little experience) to finally have filename completion by pressing tab.

Though I don't really see much use for the command line in Windows except for some pretty simple commands (ping, tracert, ipconfig...), but I guess it can be useful sometimes.