{"id":71633,"date":"2004-08-17T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2004\/08\/17\/how-can-i-save-output-to-a-text-file\/"},"modified":"2004-08-17T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T15:56:00","slug":"how-can-i-save-output-to-a-text-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/how-can-i-save-output-to-a-text-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Save Output to a Text File?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to save my script output to a text file rather than displaying it on screen? <\/p>\n

— KP, Ogden, UT<\/p>\n

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Hey, KP. If you always<\/i> want your script to save data to a text file rather than display it on screen, then you\u2019re probably better off using the FileSystemObject and its file-writing capabilities. However, it appears as though you sometimes<\/i> want to save data to a text file and sometimes want to display that data in a command window. So can you create a multi-purpose script like that?<\/p>\n

Well, you could, but an easier way is to use the command shell redirection characters when you start the script. For example, you might typically start your script like this:<\/p>\n

cscript myscript.vbs\n<\/pre>\n
That runs the script, and causes any Wscript.Echo commands to display their output in the command window.<\/p>\n
However, you could also start your script like this, using the > command shell redirection command:<\/p>\n
cscript myscript.vbs > c:\\scripts\\log.txt\n<\/pre>\n
In that case, nothing will be echoed to the screen; instead, all your Wscript.Echo commands will be written to the text file C:\\Scripts\\Log.txt.<\/p>\n
In the preceding example, should C:\\Scripts\\Log.txt already exist it will be overwritten with any new information generated by the script. If you\u2019d prefer to have new information appended<\/i> to C:\\Scripts\\Log.txt, then start the script using this command:<\/p>\n
cscript myscript.vbs >> c:\\scripts\\log.txt\n<\/pre>\n

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Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to save my script output to a text file rather than displaying it on screen? — KP, Ogden, UT Hey, KP. If you always want your script to save data to a text file rather than display it on screen, then you\u2019re probably better off using the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,14,5],"class_list":["post-71633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-text-files","tag-vbscript"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to save my script output to a text file rather than displaying it on screen? — KP, Ogden, UT Hey, KP. If you always want your script to save data to a text file rather than display it on screen, then you\u2019re probably better off using the […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}