How to pipe unicode output to non-unicode input?

Good day.

I call in command window (cmd.exe) a command that produces unicode output,
e.g. subinacl.exe from Resource Kit Tools and I want to find in the output
some string. For instance, in order to define who is the owner of
C:\temp.txt I call subinacl.exe and pipe the output to find.exe:

C:\>subinacl.exe /nostatistic /file C:\temp.txt /display=owner | find.exe
"/owner"

but such command returns nothing because the out of subinacl.exe delivered
in Unicode mode, while in the part

find.exe "/owner"

the string "/owner" is interpreted as ANSI, but not Unicode.

The initial call of cmd.exe with option "/A" doesn't help (probably because
it only affects internal commands of WinXp)

How to resolve the problem?
Is there a way to convert on-fly unicode output into ANSI ?

Thank you
Evgeny Zoldin

"Evgeny Zoldin" wrote in message

> Good day.
>
> I call in command window (cmd.exe) a command that produces unicode
output,
> e.g. subinacl.exe from Resource Kit Tools and I want to find in the output
> some string. For instance, in order to define who is the owner of
> C:\temp.txt I call subinacl.exe and pipe the output to find.exe:
>
> C:\>subinacl.exe /nostatistic /file C:\temp.txt /display=owner | find.exe
> "/owner"
>
> but such command returns nothing because the out of subinacl.exe delivered
> in Unicode mode, while in the part
>
> find.exe "/owner"
>
> the string "/owner" is interpreted as ANSI, but not Unicode.
>
> The initial call of cmd.exe with option "/A" doesn't help (probably
because
> it only affects internal commands of WinXp)
>
> How to resolve the problem?
> Is there a way to convert on-fly unicode output into ANSI ?
>
> Thank you
> Evgeny Zoldin
>
>

You could do this:

@echo off
subinacl.exe /nostatistic /file C:\temp.txt /display=owner > c:\temp.uni
type c:\temp.uni | find.exe "/owner"

for /F "tokens=*" %* in ('subinacl.exe /nostatistic /file C:\temp.txt
/display=owner ^| find.exe "/owner"') do echo %*