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I want to write the output of a Robocopy command into a text file that I can review to see which files were copied and so forth.
I tried these commands...
robocopy drive:\ destination:\ /e /v>log.txt
robocopy drive:\ destination:\ /e /v /l>log.txt
but none of them worked.
Furthermore, I also tried both commands with >>log.txt instead of >log.txt using both forms of redirection in that syntax variation but still didn't work.
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Use the below command syntax instead since Robocopy has its own logging options just use those
ROBOCOPY "drive:\" "destination:\" *.* /E /V /NP /R:5 /LOG+:log.txt /TS /FP
Note:
/LOG+:filein particular.
Use Robocopy /? and/or the below resource link to see all the available options.
/E :: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones. /V :: produce Verbose output, showing skipped files /NP :: No Progress - don't display % copied. /R:n :: number of Retries on failed copies: default 1 million. /LOG+:file :: output status to LOG file (append to existing log). /TS :: include source file Time Stamps in the output. /FP :: include Full Pathname of files in the output.
Pimp Juice IT
Posted 2015-12-25T11:59:51.810
Reputation: 29 425
You may need to redirect error messages, which can be done using
2>instead of (or in addition to) the plain>. – Thomas Dickey – 2015-12-25T12:16:31.333