Based on Andrew Lessard’s answer, here’s a function to run a command and return the output as a string – Public Function ShellRun(sCmd As String) As String ‘Run a shell command, returning the output as a string Dim oShell As Object Set oShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) ‘run command Dim oExec As Object Dim oOutput As Object … Read more
To expand on davor’s answer, you can use PowerShell like this: powershell “dir | tee test.txt” If you’re trying to redirect the output of an exe in the current directory, you need to use .\ on the filename, eg: powershell “.\something.exe | tee test.txt”
One way to run a process from a different directory to the working directory of your Java program is to change directory and then run the process in the same command line. You can do this by getting cmd.exe to run a command line such as cd some_directory && some_program. The following example changes to … Read more
Yes, you can use substitutions and check against the original string: if not x%str1:bcd=%==x%str1% echo It contains bcd The %str1:bcd=% bit will replace a bcd in str1 with an empty string, making it different from the original. If the original didn’t contain a bcd string in it, the modified version will be identical. Testing with … Read more
File Browser Update 2016.3.20: Since PowerShell is a native component of pretty much all modern Windows installations nowadays, I’m declaring the C# fallback as no longer necessary. If you still need it for Vista or XP compatibility, I moved it to a new answer. Starting with this edit, I’m rewriting the script as a Batch … Read more
One way is: application arg0 arg1 > temp.txt set /p VAR=<temp.txt Another is: for /f %%i in (‘application arg0 arg1’) do set VAR=%%i Note that the first % in %%i is used to escape the % after it and is needed when using the above code in a batch file rather than on the command … Read more
Use: call msbuild.bat call unit-tests.bat call deploy.bat When not using CALL, the current batch file stops and the called batch file starts executing. It’s a peculiar behavior dating back to the early MS-DOS days.
PowerShell has a cmdlet for this called Measure-Command. You’ll have to ensure that PowerShell is available on the machine that runs it. PS> Measure-Command { echo hi } Days : 0 Hours : 0 Minutes : 0 Seconds : 0 Milliseconds : 0 Ticks : 1318 TotalDays : 1.52546296296296E-09 TotalHours : 3.66111111111111E-08 TotalMinutes : 2.19666666666667E-06 … Read more
Today powershell saved me. For grep there is: get-content somefile.txt | where { $_ -match “expression”} or select-string somefile.txt -pattern “expression” and for sed there is: get-content somefile.txt | %{$_ -replace “expression”,”replace”} For more detail about replace PowerShell function see this Microsoft article.
You want: dir > a.txt 2>&1 The syntax 2>&1 will redirect 2 (stderr) to 1 (stdout). You can also hide messages by redirecting to NUL, more explanation and examples on MSDN.