DOS command help needed

[Guid0]

I'm trying to run tracert and i want the results to be loddeg to a file i have created.


File - c:Tracert
command - tracert www.google.com > c:Tracert.txt ???

doesn't the ">" a pointer telling dos to put the output in the speified location

but it only logs one trace .........how do i tell it to append or start logging @ EOF?

i would like to do all this without opening a C++ compiler

[flounder43]

Dos itself does not assign that function to the ">". I am unfamilar with that program, as well, so cannot comment on the proper command...


Did it come with a help file or readme?

[Guid0]

it's built into windows.....no help topics availible.... the reason i need this is my ISP has requested it.........i believe they have a bottle neck somewere and would like to have my network do the probing for them.

yeah the comman c:\>tracert www.website.com > c:tracert.txt works except it will destroy the old info. i need it to append to the file or start logging at the end of file character....hmmmm


i haven't needed doss this much since highschool.......jeeez

[Kryten]

can be done I did something simular to adding lines to the config.sys and autoexec in a proggy I made, drop me an email and I will see what I can find for you.

[dru]

Hi Guido,

The first time ( or whenever you want to start with a fresh text file), use the command as you have it. To append results to the same file, instead of replacing the entire file, simply use two >s.

So you'd use something like this:

tracert www.website.com >>c:tracert.txt

Has been a while, so I tried this on both my systems here, and it worked fine. Gotta love DOS!

Hope this helps,

Dave

[Crash893]

im not sure if this will help or not but there is a program called neotrace that logs all the hops from you to a website and gives the ping tims of each node you reach

might help

i dont know where to get it but do a search

[Smizack]

Originally posted by crash893
im not sure if this will help or not but there is a program called neotrace that logs all the hops from you to a website and gives the ping tims of each node you reach

might help

i dont know where to get it but do a search

Yup, neotrace works well.
Also, using tracert, why not just do: C:\Tracert "site"
?

[JigPu]

Originally posted by dru
Hi Guido,

The first time ( or whenever you want to start with a fresh text file), use the command as you have it. To append results to the same file, instead of replacing the entire file, simply use two >s.

So you'd use something like this:

tracert www.website.com >>c:tracert.txt

Has been a while, so I tried this on both my systems here, and it worked fine. Gotta love DOS!

Hope this helps,

Dave
Yup!! Davie correct. I just consulted my trusty DOS 4.0 manual, and ran a test or three and it works.

Good work Dave! I was thinking piping with the "|" key, but it didn't work. Good to hear of another DOS lover! :D

JigPu

[Guid0]

Originally posted by Smizack


Yup, neotrace works well.
Also, using tracert, why not just do: C:\Tracert "site"
?

Cause i need it in a .txt file for my ISP.....copy and paste in dos never works for me.........hmmmm maybe it's not supposed to ......either way I think i like the ">>" trick pretty painless.......works for me.........thanx fellas

[Crash893]

i think neo trace letts you save results

it also gives ping times too ( best and worst times)