Copy all previous cmd output and write into a file

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.720]
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C:\Users\user>

Let's say I want to output all this to a file. How can I achieve this?
Later on I'm considering parsing the cmd output for what happened and what commands and arguments were issued in the command prompt.

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I found something, this command shows the history of commands pasted into the command line.

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doskey /history

Might be enough for what I need.

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FOR /F %a IN ('doskey /history') DO echo %a

I pasted this command into Command Prompt and there is no output. How come? I expected it to print every line.

PS. doskey /history shows the output when it is not inside FOR Loop

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So, ultimately, what you want is called redirection. To take a command's output, and create a file w/ it, you'd use:

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command > path:\to\filename.ext

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doskey /history > output.txt

That will redirect all of doskey /history's output to output.txt in the current working dir. Now, you also mentioned something about processing the text file afterward. May I ask what it is you'd like to accomplish as a whole?