Saving windows command prompt history to a file

miyahira
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Hello,
Is possible to save windows command prompt history to a file?
I'm going to work in sqlplus and would like to save in a log file all commands that were used and executed.
Example, would like to save all commads executed in a session:

C:\> sqlplus /nolog
sql> connect / as sysdba
sql> select * from v$version;
etc, etc

I tried to do before:
doskey /history >> C:\commands.log

But it does not record anything. I'm in a Windows Server 2008 64 bits.
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Commented:
Use the SQLPlus command spool:

spool C:\commands.log
[some commands]
spool off

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Note that this will output the results of the queries you run as well. I can't recall if there's a way to prevent that, but I think there is.

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sqlplus/spool.html
ReneGe

Commented:
You could also run it as a batch file like:
start "" thebatchfile.bat >>"Log File.log"

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