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Sean Long
Sean Long

Reputation: 2301

Out-file not writing errors, only successes

I've got the following piece of code that runs a separate powershell script, passing some arguments as necessary.

& $UpdateAppConfig -webConfigPath $AppConfig -keyName SQLServer -keyValue $SQLServer | out-file $PSLogFile -append -Encoding Ascii

However, it isn't pushing out errors that may occur, just the successful output. Am I missing something from my out-file piping?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 46700

Out-File does not redirect errors, only standard output. It essentially is an alias for the redirector >. In its place you could use Start-Transcript/Stop-Transcript which captures all data to file.

Start-Transcript -Path $PSLogFile
& $UpdateAppConfig -webConfigPath $AppConfig -keyName SQLServer -keyValue $SQLServer 
Stop-Transcript

Sure there is another answer about this but havent found it yet. You should also be able to do

& $UpdateAppConfig -webConfigPath $AppConfig -keyName SQLServer -keyValue $SQLServer *>> $PSLogFile

*>> Would append all output to file. See more information from about_Redirectors Have to check if that actually would work.

Upvotes: 1

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