Maya Output Window in cmd terminal.

Macbeth R.

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In windows, is there a way to open Maya via the terminal (cmd), and get all the output to it?, like in OSX and Linux behavior. Without the need of the secondary output white window.

Thanks for your tips!

Dillon Bailey

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Output window is the functional equivalent of this. Is this not enough?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Macbeth R. <bers...@gmail.com> wrote:

In windows, is there a way to open Maya via the terminal (cmd), and get all the output to it?, like in OSX and Linux behavior. Without the need of the secondary output white window.

Thanks for your tips!

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Marcus Ottosson

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As far as I know, you can't do this.

The terminal only pops up on Windows, because Maya hasn't been implemented in such a way that it will output to the cmd.exe. That window is more or less a "hack" around this, because functionally the cmd.exe is obviously capable of printing standard output from a process, generally speaking.

It's been that way since forever, so if you find a way, I think you may be eligible for award of sorts.

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Justin Israel

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What about using the "-log <filename>" Maya flag, starting it in the background, and then using some windows equivalent of the Unix "tail" command to output the log?

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Macbeth R.

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I' m actually doing it as Justin Israel said..

maya -hideConsole -log mayaFile.log

and tailing the file with

Get-Content mayaFile.log –Wait

I can probably make and alias for this, I just thought there was a more standard way to do it, this is kind of a hack (or is the same thing than the output white window),

for example in linux you can attach the output of any already running process to any current window with gdb -p PID /bin/cat

I am crazy or there was an old maya flag for debug.. maya -d

which did this in the past?

Greetings!

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 12:09:28 AM UTC+2, Justin Israel wrote:

What about using the "-log <filename>" Maya flag, starting it in the background, and then using some windows equivalent of the Unix "tail" command to output the log?

On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 4:18 AM Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:

As far as I know, you can't do this.

The terminal only pops up on Windows, because Maya hasn't been implemented in such a way that it will output to the cmd.exe. That window is more or less a "hack" around this, because functionally the cmd.exe is obviously capable of printing standard output from a process, generally speaking.

It's been that way since forever, so if you find a way, I think you may be eligible for award of sorts.

On 14 August 2015 at 17:09, Dillon Bailey <shd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Output window is the functional equivalent of this. Is this not enough?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Macbeth R. <bers...@gmail.com> wrote:

In windows, is there a way to open Maya via the terminal (cmd), and get all the output to it?, like in OSX and Linux behavior. Without the need of the secondary output white window.

Thanks for your tips!

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Marcus Ottosson

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As promised:

      {}
     /__\
   /|    |\
  (_|    |_)
     \  /
      )(
    _|__|_
  _|______|_
 |__________|

Seriously though, this works great. The only thing remaining is aborting once Maya has exited.

Thanks for sharing!

On 17 August 2015 at 14:36, Macbeth R. <bers...@gmail.com> wrote:

I' m actually doing it as Justin Israel said..
maya -hideConsole -log mayaFile.log

and tailing the file with
Get-Content mayaFile.log –Wait

I can probably make and alias for this, I just thought there was a more standard way to do it, this is kind of a hack (or is the same thing than the output white window),
for example in linux you can attach the output of any already running process to any current window with gdb -p PID /bin/cat

I am crazy or there was an old maya flag for debug.. maya -d
which did this in the past?

Greetings!

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 12:09:28 AM UTC+2, Justin Israel wrote:

What about using the "-log <filename>" Maya flag, starting it in the background, and then using some windows equivalent of the Unix "tail" command to output the log?

On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 4:18 AM Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:

As far as I know, you can't do this.

The terminal only pops up on Windows, because Maya hasn't been implemented in such a way that it will output to the cmd.exe. That window is more or less a "hack" around this, because functionally the cmd.exe is obviously capable of printing standard output from a process, generally speaking.

It's been that way since forever, so if you find a way, I think you may be eligible for award of sorts.

On 14 August 2015 at 17:09, Dillon Bailey <shd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Output window is the functional equivalent of this. Is this not enough?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Macbeth R. <bers...@gmail.com> wrote:

In windows, is there a way to open Maya via the terminal (cmd), and get all the output to it?, like in OSX and Linux behavior. Without the need of the secondary output white window.

Thanks for your tips!

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