[Buildbot-devel] Pipe ShellCommand output to file on Windows

[Thomas Middeldorp]

Erg sorry, ignore this... I somehow managed to read exactly half of what 
was already said.

- Thomas


On 23/06/2014 11:19 a.m., Thomas Middeldorp wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this works if you use a string for the command instead
> of a list (e.g. command="xt-size.exe libWhatever.a --totals >
> memstats.txt") however you quickly run into other problems when doing
> this on Windows, like as soon as you have a parameter containing a space
> etc. Not sure exactly what Buildbot does differently in each of these
> cases though.
>
> - Thomas
>
>
> On 23/06/2014 3:43 a.m., Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Alex Escott <AE at malaspina-labs.com>
>> wrote:
>>> As the title says... I have a ShellCommand step like this:
>>>
>>> Steps.append(ShellCommand(command=['xt-size.exe','libWhatever.a','--totals','>','memstats.txt']))
>>>
>>>
>>> When I run it, it gives an error:
>>> xt-size.exe: Warning: '>' is not an ordinary file
>>> xt-size.exe: 'memstats.txt': No such file
>>>
>>> I can run the command from the command line manually, that works.
>>> I've also tried a single string (.exe and args in one string) as the
>>> command parameter, still the same error.
>>
>> I'm surprised this didn't help, actually.  Given a string, Buildbot
>> prefixes it with 'CMD.EXE /c', then puts the whole thing in a
>> temporary batch file and executes it.  So I'd expect a batch file
>> containing
>>
>> CMD.EXE /c xt-size.exe libWhatever.a --totals > memstats.txt
>>
>> which is exactly what Vasily suggested.  I don't understand why that
>> wouldn't work..
>>
>> Dustin
>>
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