A neat utility to allow piping standard output to notepad as in dir | show..
If Notepad2.exe is available in the PATH, that will be used instead.
Download a compiled version of show.exe from my public Dropbox share:
>show
Saves its stdin to a temporary file and opens it in the default text editor.
show.exe v0.1.0.51120
Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Kody Brown (@kodybrown).
Released under the MIT License.
USAGE:
--version, -v Displays the current version.
--wait, -w Waits for Notepad to be closed before returning to the
console process.
--file, -f Opens the specified file instead of stdin. This flag is
really only here to enable various different ways of
showing output during automation, etc.
The file that is opened is a saved temporary file. You can edit and save it (or 'save as' to a new location).
But, bare in mind that if you edited a file like the following, the original file will not be updated when you save.
>type file.txt | show <-- DON'T DO THIS
To open and edit a file from the command-line use this instead:
>notepad file.txt
If you really want to use show for that, use the -f flag.
>show -f file.txt
Show the resuls of the dir command in Notepad.
>dir | show
>dir /S /B *.txt | show
Show the git log in Notepad.
>git log | show
Show the output of (all?) DOS commands in Notepad.
>set "_dpath=C:\logs\%date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%" & mkdir "%_dpath%" & copy /Z /Y /V "C:\temp\*.log" "%_dpath%\*" | show
Show the current directory in Notepad.
>cd | show
The show utility will only show its stdin in Notepad. For instance, the following statement will not include the error message in Notepad. For instance, running the following:
>dir C:\DoesNotExist | show
File Not Found
Displays File Not Found in the console window and the following in Notepad.
Volume in drive C is mymachine
Volume Serial Number is 1234-ABCD
Directory of C:\
So, if there is a potential error, that you would want to see, use the following:
>dir C:\DoesNotExist **2>&1** | show
Which will show the following, complete response in Notepad.
Volume in drive C is mymachine
Volume Serial Number is 1234-ABCD
Directory of C:\
File Not Found