Locate32 run from command-line and save results

[Cah]

Does anyone here use locate32 and if so knows how to get locate.exe (the command-line part of locate32, I think) to save results to a text file? I tried using locate /? to bring up the help but basically couldn't follow it, being very bad with such command syntaxt. Thnaks,

Chris

[StuartR]

Does the usual DOS trick of redirecting the output with > work?

[HansV]

Use the > operator to redirect output to a file, e.g.

locate.exe report.doc > c:\results\searchlog.txt

This will search for report.doc and instead of displaying the results in the command prompt window, will save them in the file searchlog.txt in the folder c:\results (which should already exist).

[Argus]

Have you looked at this thread at Locate32 User Forums?
http://www.locate32.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=133" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There doesn't seem to be a switch for that; but what do I know, I don't use it.

But as mentioned by Stuart & Hans one can perhaps use the redirection operator to tell the command line what to do with it.

[Cah]

Thanks everyone for the replies, I guess I was too tired when I was trying to make it work last night. I had tried using >. This morning I found that opening a command prompt in the locate.exe folder and typing the following works for searching a named database:

Locate -d "[Database Name]" -- [search term] > C:\Users\Public\Desktop\result.txt

Chris