Redirecting the output of an exe file to a txt file

[archana1234]

I am running an application on windows. I don't have the source code :(..
I need to capture the output of this exe file and redirect it into a file using my script. Can anybody help me with this? Can I use TK or IO Capture module for this?

[nithinpes]

If your exe application is directly displaying it's output to command window, use output redirection operator within system() command as in:

system("tool.exe >> result.txt");
 

If your tool expects some user input, then you would need the display to appear both on command console as well as log file. Try using:

open(STDOUT, "| tee result.txt STDOUT");
system("tool.exe >> result.txt");
close (STDOUT) ;
 

-Nithin

[nithinpes]

If your exe application is directly displaying it's output to command window, use output redirection operator within system() command as in:

system("tool.exe >> result.txt");
 

If your tool expects some user input, then you would need the display to appear both on command console as well as log file. Try using:

open(STDOUT, "| tee result.txt");
system("tool.exe >> result.txt");
close (STDOUT) ;
 

-Nithin

Just a correction in the second code. It should be:

open(STDOUT, "| tee result.txt");
system("tool.exe");
close (STDOUT) ;