capture stdout from run foo.exe

[jfitzger]

I have tried a couple of ways to capture STDOUT from an exe but have not been succesful.. Any help would be appreciated

Here is what I have tried

Local $runPID = Run (@ComSpec & " /c " & 'hostname > C:\hostname.cfg') ; put it to a file to parse later from a dos command

#include <IE.au3>

#include <file.au3>

#include <array.au3>

#include <ClipBoard.au3>

#include <Constants.au3>

Local $foo = Run ("c:\test.exe test1 test2 ")

MsgBox (0,"test", "this is the PID test.exe" & $foo) ;Got the PID fine

Local $output = StdoutRead($foo)

MsgBox (0,"stdoutread","this is camip" & $output) ;did not get any output

[Pain]

Look at the Run parameters.

2 ($STDOUT_CHILD) = Provide a handle to the child's STDOUT stream.

[PsaltyDS]

I have tried a couple of ways to capture STDOUT from an exe but have not been succesful.. Any help would be appreciated

Here is what I have tried

Local $runPID = Run (@ComSpec & " /c " & 'hostname > C:\hostname.cfg') ; put it to a file to parse later from a dos command

#include <IE.au3>

#include <file.au3>

#include <array.au3>

#include <ClipBoard.au3>

#include <Constants.au3>

Local $foo = Run ("c:\test.exe test1 test2 ")

MsgBox (0,"test", "this is the PID test.exe" & $foo) ;Got the PID fine

Local $output = StdoutRead($foo)

MsgBox (0,"stdoutread","this is camip" & $output) ;did not get any output

You need your $STDOUT_CHILD parameter, as already pointed out.

I haven't tested it, but because you are using redirection (">") on the actual command line, I don't think you are going to get that data anyway.

If you need to see the standard out data, and then later need it in the file, take the redirection off and have the AutoIt script write it to file after you get it all from StdOutRead().

[jfitzger]

Look at the Run parameters.

2 ($STDOUT_CHILD) = Provide a handle to the child's STDOUT stream.

what is the handle? The handle you get back seems to be for the run command not the child

[PsaltyDS]

what is the handle? The handle you get back seems to be for the run command not the child

In your example, $RunPID will be the PID of the instance of CMD.exe that is running (specified by @ComSpec).