Hello everyone, my interest is that if I write a batch file to copy files from one location to another location. The as the batch file is running we can see the processing status on the screen straight away. What if I want to store those processing results in a text file (log file) so that later on we can open that file to check whether how many files have been copied and if the operations of the batch file were all succesllfully carried out. I know that in Oracle it use "spool command". What about in DOS? Is there any commands or techniques we can use? Thank you in advance. Sam Phengmaly.

Redirect the output of the copy cmds to a file, like this: copy a b> out.txt copy c d>> out.txt copy e f>> out.txt ">" will redirect to the file, erasing all previous data saved on it ">>" will append the output to the file, leaving the previous data But it wouldn't display the output at the screen anymore, as you wanted (you won't see the progress) so you could do something like this: copy a b> out2.txt type out2.txt copy out.txt+out2.txt out.txt copy c d> out2.txt type out2.txt copy out.txt+out2.txt out.txt and so on -- Secret_Doom --

Example: DIR /B >>CMD.LOG Basically, any command with ">>FILENAME.EXT" Hope that helps

... but you can't redirect the batch file itself, have to do it from within the batch.