There seems to exist an issue with (output) redirection, when I try to
run an external program from code. What I want to achieve is this:
In a Win32 console I can run
>diff -r dir1 dir2 > diff.txt
When I use e.g. Exec('diff', args), diff complains about an excess
argument, it works when "> diff.txt" is removed. With other functions I
had less luck (ExecuteProcess, CreateProcess...), no output at all.
Now I assume that output redirection is a shell feature, not available
in direct invocation of an external program. Right?
Does there exist a simple way to run "diff", and to redirect its output
into an file? A batch file? Platform independence would be nice, of course.
DoDi
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