SHELL --> dir

[HQSneaker]

How can I display the results of the following command in QB?

Code:

SHELL("C:\ dir")

[RST]

Do you mean:

Code:

SHELL "dir c:\"

?

That displays the results. Or:

dir > output.txt

will write the results of dir to output.txt, and from there you can use it in qbasic. Be careful when using SHELL commands, though - it makes it harder for your programs to work on anything newer than win98.

[HQSneaker]

Yeah that's what I mean:

Code:

dir c:\ >output.txt

Like this?

[DrV]

Well, then you have to do something like:

[syntax="qbasic"]f = FREEFILE
open "output.txt" for input as #f
do while not eof(f)
line input #f, s$
print s$
loop
close #f[/syntax]

[HQSneaker]

Well yeah, but my question was: How do I do this exactly? I know how to open a textfile and write data to it, but how do I write the output of DOS commands to a textfile?

[DrV]

Yeah that's what I mean:

Code:

dir c:\ >output.txt

Like this?

Yes. The ">" character redirects standard output to a file, in this case "output.txt".