[SOLVED] Using cygwin to netively execute cmd command and redirect stdout

Using cygwin to netively execute cmd command and redirect stdout

Using cygwin on Windows 7, need to:

execute a command in cmd
return immediately (using START)
redirect stdout to a file

I've tried (executed in cygwin):

cmd /C "START cmd /C \"executableFileName -f -n 100 > logFilePath.txt\""

And many variations of the above line, but nothing worked.

Solution

I don't have cygwin, so I cannot test. But try the following.

cmd /c start cmd /c "executableFileName -f -n 100 >logFilePath.txt"

The quotes around the command following /c are not required, so you don't need them in the first cmd /c. They are useful in the second cmd /c to prevent the redirection from activating until the final cmd is executed.

Regarding your original code - the escape character for cmd.exe is ^, not \, and you cannot escape a quote once quoting has begun. That is why I opted not to include any quotes in the outer most cmd /c