Guest RJK Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 ....in a CMD box I type:- ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt ....and it never arrives there ! any clues ? TIA regards, Richard
Guest RJK Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... ...forget it, piped output went to C:\ okay ! I was just about to start fiddling with real dos 8.3 file/directory names but, gave it one last shot at dumping the output into my boot drive root-directory, and it worked !! regards, Richard "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > ...in a CMD box I type:- > > ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt > ...and it never arrives there ! > > any clues ? > > TIA > > regards, Richard >
Guest John Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... You might want to surround it with double quotes (see below). ipconfig /all > "c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt" "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > ...in a CMD box I type:- > > ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt > ...and it never arrives there ! > > any clues ? > > TIA > > regards, Richard >
Guest RJK Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... Thanks for that, will bear that in mind. regards, Richard "John" <a> wrote in message news:%23O3zoqvAJHA.2056@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > You might want to surround it with double quotes (see below). > > ipconfig /all > "c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt" > > > "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> ...in a CMD box I type:- >> >> ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt >> ...and it never arrives there ! >> >> any clues ? >> >> TIA >> >> regards, Richard >> > >
Guest Bob I Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... | is pipe < , > and >> is redirecting and "s must be used when spaces are involved in the path or file name. RJK wrote: > ..forget it, piped output went to C:\ okay ! > > I was just about to start fiddling with real dos 8.3 file/directory names > but, gave it one last shot at dumping the output into my boot drive > root-directory, and it worked !! > > regards, Richard > > > > "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >>...in a CMD box I type:- >> >>ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt >>...and it never arrives there ! >> >>any clues ? >> >>TIA >> >>regards, Richard >> > > >
Guest RJK Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... Thanks for that. I never yet came across | being pipe, ...in all the old MSDOS's > was pipe. regards, Richard "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OB$GZ8vAJHA.908@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >| is pipe > > < , > and >> is redirecting > > and "s must be used when spaces are involved in the path or file name. > > RJK wrote: > >> ..forget it, piped output went to C:\ okay ! >> >> I was just about to start fiddling with real dos 8.3 file/directory >> names but, gave it one last shot at dumping the output into my boot drive >> root-directory, and it worked !! >> >> regards, Richard >> >> >> >> "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> >>>...in a CMD box I type:- >>> >>>ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt >>>...and it never arrives there ! >>> >>>any clues ? >>> >>>TIA >>> >>>regards, Richard >>> >> >> >> >
Guest Bob I Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... Sorry but "|" has always been the pipe symbol. For filtering the output of commands. Like DIR | MORE , try it to see it work. RJK wrote: > Thanks for that. I never yet came across | being pipe, ...in all the old > MSDOS's > was pipe. > > regards, Richard > > > "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:OB$GZ8vAJHA.908@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > >>| is pipe >> >>< , > and >> is redirecting >> >>and "s must be used when spaces are involved in the path or file name. >> >>RJK wrote: >> >> >>>..forget it, piped output went to C:\ okay ! >>> >>>I was just about to start fiddling with real dos 8.3 file/directory >>>names but, gave it one last shot at dumping the output into my boot drive >>>root-directory, and it worked !! >>> >>>regards, Richard >>> >>> >>> >>>"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> >>> >>>>...in a CMD box I type:- >>>> >>>>ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt >>>>...and it never arrives there ! >>>> >>>>any clues ? >>>> >>>>TIA >>>> >>>>regards, Richard >>>> >>> >>> >>> > >
Guest RJK Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... oops! > redirect output ...yes ....long time since using | ....you're absolutely correct :-) regards, Richard "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e1SpyKwAJHA.2056@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Sorry but "|" has always been the pipe symbol. For filtering the output of > commands. Like DIR | MORE , try it to see it work. > > RJK wrote: > >> Thanks for that. I never yet came across | being pipe, ...in all the >> old MSDOS's > was pipe. >> >> regards, Richard >> >> >> "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:OB$GZ8vAJHA.908@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> >>>| is pipe >>> >>>< , > and >> is redirecting >>> >>>and "s must be used when spaces are involved in the path or file name. >>> >>>RJK wrote: >>> >>> >>>>..forget it, piped output went to C:\ okay ! >>>> >>>>I was just about to start fiddling with real dos 8.3 file/directory >>>>names but, gave it one last shot at dumping the output into my boot >>>>drive root-directory, and it worked !! >>>> >>>>regards, Richard >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>news:uMOdbkvAJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>> >>>> >>>>>...in a CMD box I type:- >>>>> >>>>>ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt >>>>>...and it never arrives there ! >>>>> >>>>>any clues ? >>>>> >>>>>TIA >>>>> >>>>>regards, Richard >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >
Guest JF Posted August 21, 2008 Posted August 21, 2008 Re: "pipe" won't work ... *Bonjour RJK * ! <news:#sdpPzvAJHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl> Last one : ipconfig /all >"%USERPROFILE%\ipconfig.txt" -- Regards, Jean-François
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