sending contents of a command prompt to a text file

sulxxx · External Since: Aug 03, 2009 Posts: 2

is it possible to send the contents of a command prompt to a text file?
the command prompt is "arp-a"

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Anteaus · External Since: Aug 08, 2007 Posts: 16

New file each time:
arp - a >arp.txt

Add to existing file:
arp -a >>arp.txt

"Sul@MS NewsServer" wrote:

> is it possible to send the contents of a command prompt to a text file?
> the command prompt is "arp-a"
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> Dual Boot WinXP Pro SP3 with Windows 7
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chas2209 · External Since: Aug 03, 2009 Posts: 6

"Sul@MS NewsServer" <sulxxx.TakeThisOut@live.com> wrote in message
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> is it possible to send the contents of a command prompt to a text file?
> the command prompt is "arp-a"
>
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> Dual Boot WinXP Pro SP3 with Windows 7
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Hi
Create Blank Text Document
Open the command prompt, Right click within the window >Select All
Then Paste to text document

chas2209

sulxxx · External Since: Aug 03, 2009 Posts: 2

thanks

"Anteaus" <Anteaus.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> New file each time:
> arp - a >arp.txt
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> Add to existing file:
> arp -a >>arp.txt
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> "Sul@MS NewsServer" wrote:
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>> is it possible to send the contents of a command prompt to a text file?
>> the command prompt is "arp-a"
>>
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>> Dual Boot WinXP Pro SP3 with Windows 7
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Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP · External Since: Mar 04, 2009 Posts: 8

Right-click anywhere in the Command Prompt, and click Select All
Press {ENTER}. The output is now copied to the Windows clipboard.

See also:
Copy command-line output directly to the Clipboard using Clip.exe:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/248/1/Copy-command-line-output-d...ctly-to

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"Sul@MS NewsServer" <sulxxx.TakeThisOut@live.com> wrote in message
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> is it possible to send the contents of a command prompt to a text file?
> the command prompt is "arp-a"
>
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> Dual Boot WinXP Pro SP3 with Windows 7
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Tim Meddick · External Since: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 128

What "Anteaus" wrote was all that you needed to know about sending output to a file.

However, I wanted to give you a little bit of general advice about the use of
"switches".

In your example "arp-a" the "-a" was the "switch".

But you should *always* leave a space between the command and between any individual
switches.

e.g. : dir /a /o /p
arp -a -g

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. Smile

"Sul@MS NewsServer" <sulxxx.RemoveThis@live.com> wrote in message
news:OfoS2P9EKHA.1488@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> is it possible to send the contents of a command prompt to a text file?
> the command prompt is "arp-a"
>
> --
> Dual Boot WinXP Pro SP3 with Windows 7
>
>