Question

I’m trying to run several background processes from a batch file and have the output directed to a file. Is it possible to do this in Windows? This is what I’ve tried but it end up directing the output of the start program rather then background process.

start myapp.exe > myapp.out 2>&1

Answer 1

I think the only chance you have is to create one batch file for each exe that you want to start. Inside the batch file you can redirect the output. The master batch file would then “start” the batch file, not the exe directly.

You just need to include an exit command at the end of each batch file:

start_myapp.cmd contains the following:

myapp.exe > myapp.out 2>&1
exit

then you can run

start start_myapp.cmd 

and the output will be redirected