Does anyone have a good method for catching error's in .cmd files and sending to a text file or pause it? As I've read there can be like 256 or so errorlevel's

Thought I seen something here once before but can't find it for nothing.

Hey maxXPsoft,

I was wondering something similar when trying to troubleshoot a .cmd file the other day.

The only thing I was able to find was that if you put a eg.">>C:\test.log" after every command that you execute, it will send the results to the example test.log.

Example. "C:\dir>>C:\test.log" outputs what you would see if you ran that command in dos.

I hope this is what you were asking about, and I hope it helps!

In NT4/2K/XP/2003 the latest ERRORLEVEL generated is stored by system in variable called, guess what?, ERRORLEVEL, so that to log them you just need something along the lines of:

.....
@ECHO OFF
if exist %TEMP%\logfile.log del %TEMP%\logfile.log
if not exist %TEMP%\logfile.log ECHO [Logfile start] > %TEMP%\logfile.log

:doing_SOMETHING
DIR C:\ 
::this ^ is the SOMETHING action
Echo DONE SOMETHING RESULTING ERRORLEVEL IS  %ERRORLEVEL% >> %TEMP%\logfile.log
......

See here for more info and details:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/errorlevel.html

jaclaz