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Macro Express is unable to redirect ( > ) or pipe ( | ) output to stdout. To accomplish this you can create a batch (.bat) file and call it from the macro.

 

You batch file should look like this:

C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe -R > C:\logfile.log

 

and your macro like this:

Genius. Thanks

Ahh, yeah, My typo - I've tried the > sign and it doesn't like the 2nd argument?

I've tried using "" marks around each of the arguments too, but it doesn't work.

Any other help much appreciated....

Hi all,

First time poster, so go easy

I'm trying to get the program parameters option to work. My objective is to output the result of dos window to a file.

So in DOS this is what I'd do:

C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe -R > C:\logfile.log

and so in Macro Express I assumed that I'd use the program parameters option and put -R C:\logfile.log in there. Something like this:

But it doesn't work? As soon as I put a space in the program parameters field it fails. I also can't see why it fails because the DOS window closes immediately on fail.

Any help much appreciated.