Get rid of spaces and tabs in wmic output

Question

Using batch, trying to get output of the following command:

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename

Thus, I'm simply doing the following:

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename >>"C:\out.log"

Unfortunately, this is the output I'm getting:

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '15 at 11:08

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wmic has an output flag that you can use in place of redirect symbols that might work out better for you.

wmic /output:"C:\out.log" logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename

answered Feb 23 '15 at 11:08

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There is the `/Append` switch that works almost the same as output but it appends. Plus you can specify `clipboard` instead of a file. – Serenity Feb 23 '15 at 12:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '15 at 11:10

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The output from WMIC is unicode, your "spaces" are nulls from the two bytes unicode characters in file. Try with

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename | find /v "" >>"C:\out.log"

answered Feb 23 '15 at 11:10

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Thanks, best solution in my case as I wanted to add more info to log. – zach Feb 23 '15 at 11:44

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 20 '18 at 17:04

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I had no problem seeing the file, but when doing findstr, I noticed it is not found. So I did the following and it will allow it to produce a regular ASCII text file.

Another solution is to type out the file and do it again

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename >>"C:\out.log"
type c:\out.log > c:\out1.log
findstr  "your text" out1.log (instead of out.log)

edited Jul 20 '18 at 17:04

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answered Jan 09 '18 at 19:32

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Get rid of spaces and tabs in wmic output

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