How to run bat file to produce text log of ping an

I need to create a bat file that runs a ping and tracert from dos and then outputs the file to a text log of the results, I have the bat file running to ping and tracert but don't remember how to get it to dump the results to text log, help please

Use the > (direct) character.

ping 192.168.1.255 > c:\logdir\pinglog.txt

Thanks works like a charm , I had the right Idea just missed a bit