Currently I have a make file that will build my software using gnumake and currently I redirect my output text (like build logs, warnings, errors) in a file. But now I think it's very helpful to also display all the output text while building and while redirecting the output text in a file. Below is my current command,
gnumake -f Build.mak 1>Logs.txt 2>>&1
Is it possible to display the output text while redirecting the output text in a file?
I know this is a old post, but was never answered correctly.
Here is one answer for other future viewers.
You don't need tee to be able to log a file and show the text. There is another way.
This question was answered on StackOverflow. Here are the 2 links:
If you don't want to use tee check this: When adding a TextLog to Echo in Command Line, Input wont show up
For tee you can see this: Displaying Windows command prompt output and redirecting it to a file
Just going to throw the answer here.
In dos yo can use this without using tee.
set LogFile=path\logfile.txt
set TempLog=path\temp
set logg=^> %TempLog%^&^& type %TempLog%^&^&type %TempLog%^>^>%LogFile%
If you need to create directory or/and logfile.txt do this.
if not exist "path" mkdir "path" >>nul
echo. 2> %LogFile% >nul
echo. 2> %TempLog% >nul
Now just use echo like this:
echo This will show me a text and logg %logg%
if you install cygwin (unix tools on ms windows), you can use the "tee" command: gnumake -f Build.mak | tee Logs.txt
(this will save the output to Logs.txt and at the same time show the output to the console).
Enhanced version of Avrumi Sherman with handling of STDERR and STDOUT:
D:\>dir ERROR 1>log.txt 2>&1 & type log.txt
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: ist DATA
Volumeseriennummer: 4653-A096
Verzeichnis von D:\Projekte\UDG_TMP\build-deploy
Datei nicht gefunden
So it displays the STDTOUT (first lines) and the STDERR (last line) on screen and the log-file.
For usage in a batch file just do it like Avrumi Sherman did but use a single & in order to catch the ERROR-cases as well:
D:\>set logFile=log.txt
D:\>set tmpLog=tmp.txt
D:\>set logCmd=1^>%tmpLog% 2^>^&1 ^& type %tmpLog% ^& type %tmpLog%^>^>%logFile%
Now you can use the logCmd variable like a logCmd ;)
Note the ERROR messages of the first dir and the second rmdir are displayed on screen as well as appearing in the log-file:
D:\>echo START %logCmd%
START
D:\>dir DIRECTORY %logCmd%
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: ist DATA
Volumeseriennummer: 4653-A096
Verzeichnis von D:\
Datei nicht gefunden
D:\>mkdir DIRECTORY %logCmd%
D:\>dir DIRECTORY %logCmd%
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: ist DATA
Volumeseriennummer: 4653-A096
Verzeichnis von D:\DIRECTORY
26.08.2020 17:50 <DIR> .
26.08.2020 17:50 <DIR> ..
0 Datei(en), 0 Bytes
2 Verzeichnis(se), 68.391.989.248 Bytes frei
D:\>rmdir DIRECTORY %logCmd%
D:\>rmdir DIRECTORY %logCmd%
Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
D:\>echo STOP %logCmd%
STOP
At the end of your batch file you can/should delete %tmpLog%. Here the content of %logFile% using the example above:
START
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: ist DATA
Volumeseriennummer: 4653-A096
Verzeichnis von D:\
Datei nicht gefunden
Datenträger in Laufwerk D: ist DATA
Volumeseriennummer: 4653-A096
Verzeichnis von D:\DIRECTORY
26.08.2020 17:50 <DIR> .
26.08.2020 17:50 <DIR> ..
0 Datei(en), 0 Bytes
2 Verzeichnis(se), 68.391.989.248 Bytes frei
Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
STOP
Take a look at this SOq:
Basically, you can use tee command e.g. from here:
