Read Console Output

[nitin3]

in my app i want to execute a batch file, and want to read the console output from that batch file. how to do that ?

[Raj Prathap]

IO redirection might help you. in command prompt, if abcd.bat is the batch file then I'd gove the command abcd.bat >output.txt hope that was helpful.

[Matthew Faithfull]

It is possible to read the output console buffer as input using the ordinary Win32 Console API. I don't have the code here but it can definitely be done without redirection. If you can wrap your head around the highly confusing MSDN documentation on the Console API you'll have your answer.

Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.

[David Crow]

Are you wanting something like this or this?

---

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne