[SOLVED] redirecting output

[Two-eyes]

oh, that's nice
Thanks
...
What do you know?  I tried the first code you sent, and it worked(obviously).
Then I tried this:

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(ECHO hiya >doesnotexist\notextfile.txt) 2>error.txt
and got a text file called error.txt saying "the path couldnt be found" (ie the output i wanted originally)

dang...now I am even more curious

Thanks

[Salmon Trout]

See my (edited) post No. 12 above.

[Two-eyes]

ooops 
Sorry, but you edited it twice, so I thought you meant the first edit.....my bad

Thanks

Two-Eyes

[Salmon Trout]

ooops 
Sorry, but you edited it twice, so I thought you meant the first edit.....my bad

Thanks

Two-Eyes

No, my bad, I forgot I had edited it twice (I can't remember what I wrote first!)

[Salmon Trout]

I think the answer is, that you know where the echo command ends but cmd.exe does not

ECHO hiya >doesnotexist\notextfile.txt 2>error.txt

it thinks this is the filename to echo hiya into:

doesnotexist\notextfile.txt 2>error.txt

But this way it knows

(ECHO hiya >doesnotexist\notextfile.txt) 2>error.txt

[Two-eyes]

ahhh yes.  The assumption "what I know, it knows".  I fall quite a few times in that.