Savin batch file results

[zeroburn]

I am writin a small program that i can use on m computer. It runs several simple commands, and gathers information. How would i save the information gathered from the batch file, but automatically??

example:
if i run the "info.bat" on a computer, and it runs a sysem tree or the such, and several commands. But i want the results of the tree to go into the same folder as "Info.bat". How would i go upon doing so?

[Geek-9pm]

Normally you would do this:
infor.bat  > info.txt

Did you already try that?

[Raven19528]

Since its numerous commands, you can redirect all output to a file by enclosing all commands in brackets and then redirecting:

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(
cmd
cmd
cmd
cmd
) > output.txt


[Geek-9pm]

Since its numerous commands, you can redirect all output to a file by enclosing all commands in brackets and then redirecting:

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(
cmd
cmd
cmd
cmd
) > output.txt


I jiust tried thqt and it just hung there waiting for anoter command.

[zeroburn]

ok, so now, lets say i want to save the file with the name of the current date/time. as so i can run this on two or more computers, or two times on the same system, and have unique file names

[Raven19528]

I jiust tried thqt and it just hung there waiting for anoter command.

Did you use it verbatim? cmd was supposed to be replaced by whatever commands the OP is wanting to have in there. Also, just like any other redirect, if the command calls for additional user input at any point, it will hang because it redirects all output to the identified file and the user has no idea what they are waiting for.

ok, so now, lets say i want to save the file with the name of the current date/time. as so i can run this on two or more computers, or two times on the same system, and have unique file names

Where the filename for your output text is, add the %date% and %time% variables. Open up the cmd prompt and type echo %date% %time% so that you can see what output you will get. Then you can parse the output to work for what you are liking. I personally like %time:~0,5% %date:~10%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2% Which right now would give 7:20 20111107. Post back if you need further clarification on the parsing.

[Geek-9pm]

Did you use it verbatim? cmd was supposed to be replaced by whatever commands the OP is wanting to have in there. Also, just like any other redirect, if the command calls for additional user input at any point, it will hang because it redirects all output to the identified file and the user has no idea what they are waiting for.

It was posted as code.

[Raven19528]

It was posted as code.

Touche...

[Salmon Trout]

I jiust tried thqt and it just hung there waiting for anoter command.

If you really "just tried that" then you shouldn't really be fooling around with stuff that you don't understand.

[Raven19528]

It probably won't work because Windows doesn't like destroying itself, but if I posted:

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format %systemdrive% /x /y

would you try that too since it is posted as code?

When I post code, I try to do so to the best of my ability without knowing the full details. If I have to insert some "fluff" so that the OP understands that they should put their own commands in that area, then I do so. If it was not clear that that was my intention in posting cmd, then I apologize and will work to make it more clear in the future.

[zeroburn]

If you really "just tried that" then you shouldn't really be fooling around with stuff that you don't understand.

I do understand the basics of it, i know what commands destroy the OS

[patio]

Are you sure ? ?

[zeroburn]

By "Just tried that" i mean i had attempted it in a batch file in an attempt to see if it would work better than my own attempts.

Granted, i perfer the Unix command system better than DOS, but i still know my way around the command line of both operating systems.

Therefore, i believe i have at least an intermediate understanding of MS-DOS commands.

[Geek-9pm]

Therefore, i believe i have at least an intermediate understanding of MS-DOS commands.

Are you referring to the SACF command?
Stop And Catch Fire  was deprecated a long time ago in DOS. Don't know if it is still in UNIX.   

[zeroburn]

I believe i found a solution that works, as windows does not like to save files with the ":", "/" or any other punctuarion

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info.bat>%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%_%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%.txt
How is this for the code?? does anyone find an error?? This saves the results with a timestamp, but i am unable to save multiple files. I run a large cluster of workstations, running windows at some times, and perfer a script i can run quickly to find the basic information on each workstation, (such as internal IP, and if i could, the public ip, but i dont thing MS-DOS has the capability to do such at this point. or am i wrong??

Either way, i appreciate the help that has led me this far closer to the solution

EDIT:
By sometimes, i mean that i also run linux on the systems, and i am also working on a SH script for those computers that completes the same basic commands but for linux