Redirecting cmd output

[Don57]

Trying to redirect cmd screen to a file, but i am gettind Invalid_User_Buffer in WriteFile. After more reading at Microsoft I'm not sure if the calls redirect to screen output to a file, or they redirect the file to the screen.

; create file

     invoke CreateFile, ADDR lpszSave_File_Name,\                     
                        GENERIC_READ or GENERIC_WRITE,\                   
                        FILE_SHARE_READ or FILE_SHARE_WRITE,\
                        NULL, CREATE_ALWAYS,\
                        FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL
 

     mov hSaveCreateFile ,eax         


; reset StdOut to file


      invoke SetStdHandle, STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, hSaveCreateFile

      mov hConOut, eax


; set for console out write


      invoke WriteFile, hSaveCreateFile, hConOut, FileBufferSize, ADDR dwBytesRead, 0

[Vortex]

Not sure but this article might help you :

How to spawn console processes with redirected standard handles

[dedndave]

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      invoke WriteFile, hSaveCreateFile, hConOut, FileBufferSize, ADDR dwBytesRead, 0

that doesn't make any sense to me   :P
it seems like the first parm should be the newly redirected handle (hConOut)
the second parm is a pointer to a buffer

i can't say that i have ever played with this, but....
in addition to the link that Erol gave you...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682499%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

also, in the old forum, Mike played with pipes a bit (slugsnack i think was his ID)

of course.....
you are creating this process
so, you could do it on the command line and let CMD.EXE take care of it   :t

[Don57]

I tried in the CreateProcess lpCommandLine witth escape sequences but just couldn't get it to work kept on getting a macro nesting error so rather than loose my mind I thought that I would try another way

               .if !rv(CreateProcess,NULL,"c:\\Windows\\System32\\wevtutil.exe el /r test.text",0,0,0,CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE or CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP,0,0, ADDR sui,ADDR pi)
   
                .endif

I also tried qWords line verbatum and couldn't get it to work. I do very low level chip programming and don't use API's or Macros. The API's give me some problems, but my understanding of the Macros is almost nil

[dedndave]

try this...
"c:\\Windows\\System32\\wevtutil.exe el >test.txt"

[Don57]

That generates the following errors

C:\Users\Mirage\Work\Scrub Logs\LogCleaner.asm(377) : error A2046: missing single or double quotation mark in string
rv(2): Macro Called From
  C:\Users\Mirage\Work\Scrub Logs\LogCleaner.asm(377): Main Line Code
C:\Users\Mirage\Work\Scrub Logs\LogCleaner.asm(377) : fatal error A1008: unmatched macro nesting
rv(4): Macro Called From
  C:\Users\Mirage\Work\Scrub Logs\LogCleaner.asm(377): Main Line Code

It's enough to drive you mad

[dedndave]

 

you'll just have to break it up...
"c:\\Windows\\System32\\wevtutil.exe el ",62,"test.txt"

not sure how well the rv macro will handle that
i never use it - i just make a string in the .DATA section and pass the pointer

sorry - i forgot that character has meaning in ASM

[Don57]

Thanks for the help. The commas before and after the ASCII are inadmissable and generate assembler errors. If I put the command line in a .DATA declaration it assembles alright, but generates an command not recognized in the command window. I tried both method using the Macro and with a simple invoke CreateProcess. In an earlier post someone mentioned escape squences, which I use in PHP but I can find no reference list to MASM32 escape sequences.

[dedndave]

a little google and.....
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/16/598893.aspx

ahhh, yes - of course   ;)
the CMD.EXE program is the one that chews on redirection - not the utility

you won't need a path for CMD.EXE - but you might for the utility to run under it
in this case, the utility is also in system32 (in PATH), so....

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szCmdLine db "cmd.exe /C wevtutil.exe el ",62,"test.txt",0

[Don57]

That's it Thank You very much. I was going a little crazy.

[jj2007]

No double backslashes in Masm32 - that is a C disease. Test it below.

include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.code
start:
   mov eax, rv(StdOut, "C:\\Windows\\C_sucks\\Whatever")
   inkey chr$(10)
   exit

end start

[qWord]

Don57,
rv and rvc differs in their function: only rvc supports escape sequences. Also, as said here, take a look in the documentation (hlhelp.chm) - there list with all usable escape sequences.

[mineiro]

Have found a link that deals with pipe, the example redirects input of edit to console, and output from console to edit control. Coded in tasm with source code, but can be easy converted to masm dialect.

http://www.ols-lab.com/devcorner/tasm32/misc/