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JBurace
JBurace

Reputation: 5633

Append output to file: "File not found"

I have this line in a Windows batch file:

dir /a-d "E:\Reports_PreDelivery\*" && (xcopy /D /V E:\Reports_PreDelivery\* \\ServerName\Folder\Procedures)

This all works correctly. I'd like to log the output to a file, so I tried:

dir /a-d "E:\Reports_PreDelivery\*" && (xcopy /D /V E:\Reports_PreDelivery\* \\ServerName\Folder\Procedures) >> C:\logs\reports_transmit.log

The output redirect doesn't seem to work. The directory listing still shows up in the cmd window (instead of redirecting) and then hits a "File not found" error like it's trying to run dir for something incorrectly. I also tried 2>&1 at the end too, no luck.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 424

Answers (1)

dbenham
dbenham

Reputation: 130839

Your redirection is in the wrong place. It is only being applied to the conditional XCOPY command.

Try placing parentheses around everything, and redirect outside of that.

(dir /a-d "E:\Reports_PreDelivery\*" && xcopy /D /V E:\Reports_PreDelivery\* \\ServerName\Folder\Procedures) >>C:\logs\reports_transmit.log 2>&1

Upvotes: 1

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