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gdal_warp and similar give a nice progress summary when run and I want this output to show in the osgeo shell and also pipe to a text file. The issue is when I add the pipe the output doesn't show on the screen. How can I do both?

gdal_translate -expand rgba -of GTiff -a_srs EPSG:3857 -co TILED=YES -co BIGTIFF=YES %1 %2\%3\%3_translated.tif > %2\%3\%3_translate_log.txt

puts the output to a text file but then doesn't show the progress on screen.

I tried

Echo gdal_translate -expand rgba -of GTiff -a_srs EPSG:3857 -co TILED=YES -co BIGTIFF=YES %1 %2\%3\%3_translated.tif > %2\%3\%3_translate_log.txt

and

Echo.gdal_translate -expand rgba -of GTiff -a_srs EPSG:3857 -co TILED=YES -co BIGTIFF=YES %1 %2\%3\%3_translated.tif > %2\%3\%3_translate_log.txt

but neither works.

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first to ' echo "command line with spaces" >> file.txt ' and after that execute command line in bat file (or do like i do, i got bash shell from git package and i do all my scripts in bash) – simplexio Nov 22 '12 at 10:47
I don't understand <<echo "gdal_translate -expand rgba -of GTiff -a_srs EPSG:3857 -co TILED=YES -co BIGTIFF=YES %1 %2\%3\%3_translated.tif" > %2\%3\1_%3_translate_log.txt >> just prints the line in the log.txt file. – GeorgeC Nov 22 '12 at 11:31
sorry, my bad i didn't understand question right. See R.K answer. it is working way to do it – simplexio Nov 22 '12 at 13:26

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Found this workaround at StackOverflow

gdal_translate -expand rgba -of GTiff -a_srs EPSG:3857 -co TILED=YES -co BIGTIFF=YES %1 %2\%3\%3_translated.tif >> %2\%3\%3_translate_log.txt | type a.txt %2\%3\%3_translate_log.txt

A caveat, this will echo to screen after it has been saved to file.

Or you can install a Windows port of the tee command that should do what you want.

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thanks...the main reason for this question is to be able to see what's happening with the gdal_warp/retile.py etc as they give an output "0...10...20" or "pyramid 1012 created" etc. I can also just open the txt file and it still writes to it. I don't want to install tee or cygwin as getting gdal/python to work in it is very complex...can we echo the output to the shell and then pipe that to a txt file? – GeorgeC Nov 22 '12 at 12:59
Unfortunately, I don't think you can do that on Windows. There can only be one output if I'm not mistaken. I think tee isn't too complex. The format is just ` mycommand > tee outpu_file.txt` which should direct output to stdout and the file. – R.K. Nov 22 '12 at 14:18

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