command line paramater printing

[surferboy]

i was wondering if there is a way to print out the
command line paramaters of a given file/command and put
them into a text file for later reading? i know that the
command line /? after the file name/command will give the
result printed to screen but i want to have these results
put into a file.
thanks
surferboy

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Redirect your output like so to see your paramEters:

xcopy /? > c:\xcopy.txt

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

An example:

IPCONFIG /? > C:\Temp\IPCONFIG_Parameters.txt

The > character tells the OS to pipe the output to the file indicated.

If you have a USB printer, you may also want to check out this write up

http://www.decompile.com/dataflex/tips/usb_printer.htm

Make careful note of the fact that you have to reference LPT1: with the trailing colon when you print, but not when you create the connection to the printer.

 

[surferboy]

thanks again for the help. one problem though, when i
try this with, say the blasterfix patch it doesn't print
the command line paramaters to the file. it creates the
file but doesn't put anything inside of the file. is
there some thing that needs to be done differently?
thanks again for all the help
surferboy

-----Original Message-----
An example:

IPCONFIG /? > C:\Temp\IPCONFIG_Parameters.txt

The > character tells the OS to pipe the output to the file indicated.

If you have a USB printer, you may also want to check out this write up

http://www.decompile.com/dataflex/tips/usb_printer.htm

Make careful note of the fact that you have to reference

LPT1: with the trailing colon when you print, but not
when you create the connection to the printer.

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"surferboy" <[email protected]> wrote

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If the author of the command got his numbers wrong
then he may have directed the command output to
the error stream. Try this to capture your paramEters:

blasterfix 1>c:\parms1.txt 2>c:\parms2.txt

Which file containts the parameters?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If the file is a Windows exectuable, it doesn't work this way, since it sends its output to a windows dialog.

 

[surferboy]

this still doensn't output the them to a file it just
puts the to the screen while making empty text documents.
anything else i could try. by the way thanks for all the
suggestions so far.
surferboy

 

[surferboy]

isn't there a way around that.
surferboy

-----Original Message-----
If the file is a Windows exectuable, it doesn't work

this way, since it sends its output to a windows dialog.

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[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Not that I'm aware of. A Windows executable will, as far as I know, direct its output to a dialog, if it even recognizes the /? switch. Command line executables print them to the console screen, since they don't have dialogs.

 

[surferboy]

The /? switch does actualy work and you are right it
prints the results to a seperate window.

here is the whole situation. i am trying to make a
program that will grab the command line paramaters from
ms patches and then create a script that will
automatically install all of them with the correct
command line paramaters. The only problem is how do i
get the command line parameters into my script.
Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Not that I'm aware of. A Windows executable will, as

far as I know, direct its output to a dialog, if it even
recognizes the /? switch. Command line executables print
them to the console screen, since they don't have dialogs.

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"surferboy" <[email protected]> wrote

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[surferboy]

could i use a vbscrit to some how read the text from that
window into a text file?
thanks
surferboy

-----Original Message-----
Not that I'm aware of. A Windows executable will, as

far as I know, direct its output to a dialog, if it even
recognizes the /? switch. Command line executables print
them to the console screen, since they don't have dialogs.

--
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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"surferboy" <[email protected]> wrote

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[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

could i use a vbscrit to some how read the text from that
window into a text file?
thanks

Hi

With AutoItX, you can make a "hack", but it is using a SendKey method, and
therefor not trustworthy in all cases ;-)

Here you go:

Set oAutoIt = CreateObject("AutoItX.Control")
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

' Empy clipboard
oAutoIt.ClipPut ""

' Minimize all windows
oAutoIt.WinMinimizeAll()
WScript.Sleep 2000

oShell.Run "msjavx86.exe /?"

i = 0
Do
WScript.Sleep 1000
oAutoIt.Send "^c"
sText = oAutoIt.ClipGet()
i = i + 1
Loop Until (sText <> "") Or (i > 10)

If sText <> "" Then
oAutoIt.Send "{ENTER}"
MsgBox sText

Else
MsgBox "No text found"
End If


AutoIt/AutoItX is free and can be found here:
http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Since its not a window, no. Its a dialog.

As far as how to get your command line parameters into a script, you might find a BAT file easier.