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298317	2004-11-30 21:24:00	Hi, I have been asked by my boss to create a batch file that pings an IP address every minute and exports the "reply..." line to a text file with the date and time above each four ping results. I am able to make a batch file that will ping an address but am not sure how to export it to a file with the date and time in it and with only the "reply..." lines. Can anyone help?	Kodaz (6489)
298318	2004-11-30 23:49:00	ping www.google.com >> ping.txt '>>" means append output from command to file ping.txt tested on xp pro	beama (111)
298319	2004-11-30 23:53:00	for got to say ">>" will also create the file ping.txt on first use after that will append (add to) to that file ">" will also create on first use but not append but will overwrite each time used	beama (111)
298320	2004-11-30 23:54:00	The redirection operators are what you want. ">" writes the output of a command to a file (creating the file, or overwriting the file if it exists already). ">>" appends the output of a command to a file (creating the file if it doesn't exist, but adds to the end if it does exist). date >> logfile.txt might work for the date ... I haven't done this so it might want a response :-(... I have an idea that XP has an environment variable which automatically has the date so something like echo $DATE >> logfile.txt would do it "properly". ping some.site.org >> logfile.txt handles the ping outputs.	Graham L (2)
298321	2004-12-01 00:01:00	snap Graham	beama (111)
298322	2004-12-01 00:07:00	Umm ... I'm too *nix oriented. bash uses "$" to expand EVs, DOS uses "%". ;-) echo %DATE% >> logfile.txt will do the date for you. Look at the help for environment variables. It seems you get the date in your current screen date format.	Graham L (2)
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