DOS command help needed

Guid0 · Jan 23, 2002

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 · Jan 23, 2002

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 · Jan 23, 2002

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 · Jan 23, 2002

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 · Jan 24, 2002

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 · Jan 24, 2002

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 · Jan 24, 2002

crash893 said:
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 · Jan 24, 2002

dru said:
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!

JigPu

Guid0 · Jan 24, 2002

Smizack said:
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 · Jan 25, 2002

i think neo trace letts you save results

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

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