Hi,

I have been working on a script that creates a specific string, I got it working fine, but is there a way to make it save the string to a .txt file in a specific directory?

I have worked with batch programming for a while now, so I know more than just the basics, but this is something I do not know;

So, is the GoG community going to amaze me with it's knowlege once again?

Thanks,

sloganvirst

Are we talking .bat as in what's essentially basic or something more linux oriented?

With a .sh you could just echo the string and redirect it to an empty file.
echo $string >> /path/to/file/file.txt

Not sure quite what you mean...

I am using Windows XP, I created a .txt file, wrote my script in it, renamed it to a .bat file.
It works fine, I just wanted it to save it's product to a .txt file.


EDIT: Thanks! +rep for you! Sorry, Miaghstir beat you to it. Thank you anyway! I up rated your post though...

Not a problem, it makes a significant amount of difference how one does this depending upon platform. Windows does it as Miaghstir puts it and pretty much everybody else does it the way I listed.

Not that there's much of a difference in usage for this quite basic example. $varname or %varname%

Of course, there is more difference behind the scenes. For example, the *nix shell variable is local to that script, while the Windows batch variable is local to the cmd.exe instance it's running in and available to anything lauched from it.

Ah, I haven't got any Unix based OS's yet, though I was considering Linux as a start, so I havn't really done much more than Batch and stuff like that. Oh, I didn't know it did that!, though, I have only seen Linux on an old computer I used once or twice.

Right, but it is a bit of a difference. Personally, I prefer to script from a *nix shell just because there's a lot more you can do without having to count on anybody to foresee the need. It's awesome some times to combine sed and awk and get something really funky that nobody's thought about doing before.