CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershellbatch-filepowershell-2.0
Gainster
Gainster

Reputation: 5631

PowerShell output to file

I want to save the results from my PowerShell script to a text file. How can I do that?

GET-CHILDITEM  -recurse C:\Enlistment\DAX\* | SELECT-STRING -pattern "BatchIL.start()"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13441

Answers (2)

Owen B
Owen B

Reputation: 1381

Another way would be to use the "Add-Content" commandlet:

add-content <fileLocation> (CHILDITEM  -recurse C:\Enlistment\DAX\* | SELECT-STRING -pattern "BatchIL.start()")

You can also use Join-Path in brackets () in the file location for something like this:

add-content (Join-Path $env:UserProfile "OutputFile.txt") (CHILDITEM  -recurse C:\Enlistment\DAX\* | SELECT-STRING -pattern "BatchIL.start()")

That would make it a bit more portable if you need to run it on other machines and want to avoid hard coding. The above example will put the whole output of you command into "OutputFile.txt" into the root of the User's profile (for example C:\Users\Username in Windows Vista & 7)

Upvotes: 2

Keith Hill
Keith Hill

Reputation: 201652

Quite easily: :-)

Get-ChildItem C:\Enlistment\DAX -r | Select-String "BatchIL.start()" > results.txt

If you don't like the default Unicode encoding of results.txt you can also do it this way:

Get-ChildItem C:\Enlistment\DAX -r | Select-String "BatchIL.start()" | 
    Out-File results.txt -Encoding Ascii

Upvotes: 8

Related Questions