Like so, where we’ve run the DIR command from the C:\ directory and saved the output to the root directory of the D drive as “c-drive-directory-output.txt”. NOTE :- This command will work in Windows PowerShell application also. This will launch the Notepad application and then, you can close the command prompt tool. If, for example, you wanted to save the output of the DIR function to a text file instead of scrolling for page after page on your screen in the command window, you would execute the command DIR > some-descriptive-filename.txt Press Win + R keys together on your keyboard.
To redirect the output of a command to a text file instead of printing it to the screen in the command window, we simply need to execute the command and append it with the “>” angle bracket symbol-called, appropriately enough, a redirection. Saving the output of a Windows Command Prompt command is a great way to get a nice neat copy to share with support staff, analyze longer outputs using your favorite text editor, or otherwise interact with the output with more flexibility than staying in the command window allows for.
