Question

I have a batch-file program that gets called from another batch-file so I can redirect error output to a file. When you run the commmand START /B "C:\Some\Script" 2>"C:\Some\Log.log" Is the redirection recognized as an argument?

Just a question with no real usefulness (at least that I can tell), just asking out of curiousity.

Answer 1

No, it doesn’t. Try using this as your test script to verify:

set argC=0
for %%x in (%*) do Set /A argC+=1

echo %argC%

In that file, argC is the number of arguments. (Source: Wikibooks, via this answer.)