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Mike Cheel
Mike Cheel

Reputation: 13106

Error redirection not working

I am trying to pipe the output of a script to a text file.

This works:

MyScript > c:\output.txt

The problem with this is that errors are not included in the output in the text file (on screen they are).

When do this:

MyScript 2>&1 c:\output.txt

No file is created (but I still see everything on the screen).

I'm using Powershell 3.0. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 169

Answers (1)

Joshua McKinnon
Joshua McKinnon

Reputation: 24709

I believe what you're looking for is:

MyScript > c:\output.txt 2>&1

The "> c:\output.txt" redirects STDOUT to a file

The 2>&1 redirects STDERR to STDOUT

When you've already done the STDOUT redirection, the result is redirection of both STDOUT and STDERR to c:\output.txt

With only "2>&1 c:\output.txt" you're redirecting stderr to stdout, but letting stdout still output to console, and merely supplying c:\output.txt as an unused parameter to your script.

Upvotes: 2

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