Get rid of spaces and tabs in wmic output

Question

Using batch, trying to get output of the following command:

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename

Thus, I'm simply doing the following:

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename >>"C:\out.log"

Unfortunately, this is the output I'm getting:

Answer 1

The output from WMIC is unicode, your "spaces" are nulls from the two bytes unicode characters in file. Try with

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename | find /v "" >>"C:\out.log"

Answer 2

wmic has an output flag that you can use in place of redirect symbols that might work out better for you.

wmic /output:"C:\out.log" logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename

Answer 3

I had no problem seeing the file, but when doing findstr, I noticed it is not found. So I did the following and it will allow it to produce a regular ASCII text file.

Another solution is to type out the file and do it again

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,volumename >>"C:\out.log"
type c:\out.log > c:\out1.log
findstr  "your text" out1.log (instead of out.log)