WMIC process list bug?

Question

i recently found that wmic (windows management intrumentation command-line) existed :D, which is far better w/ more options than the regular "tasklist" in cmd that saves me time.

But i found a problem when exporting to .txt, is this: supposed to be that way? Because the first two letters of each line, are in the final part of each line... like here: .. is this a known "glitch/bug"? i couldn't find anything online that demonstrated this..

Answer 1

You have no problems with your files. You have a problem with notepad. There is a limit of 1024 characters in the length of the line. The 1025th character and following are moved to next line.

Answer 2

I'd suggest your problem is related to the fact that WMIC outputs unicode. I'd suggest piping the output through MORE .

I use ` Editplus as an editor which appears to accept a unicode file quite happily. I'd suggest your editor isn't quite up to snuff.

MORE is a supplied utility - try more /? from the prompt for more info.

Processing your WMIC output through more is

wmic whatever | more >textfile

you might also try

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic whatever') do >>textfile echo(%%a

(as a batch line - reduce %% to % to use from the prompt)

Notepad is a wannabe WP, wannabe editor. Tries to do both and does neither particularly well. Often gives problems in batch work. Since it's a supplied utility, there's no incentive to improve it - Microsoft simply doesn't have the funds.

Hence the availability of software from other vendors to do the task required.