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Garrett
Garrett

Reputation: 649

Trouble joining contents of log files to single doc

I have log files stored in several sub-directories of a folder D:\TILT_Logs. I want to combine all of the files into one document, D:\TILT_Logs\Combined.log.

My current script appears to be skipping some of the files, but I am not sure why.

$combine = GCI 'D:\TILT_Logs' -Recurse -Filter '*.log'

Get-Content $combine.FullName | Set-Content 'D:\TILT_Logs\Combined.log'

When I open Combined.log it is missing data from some of the log files, but I cannot figure out why they are being skipped.

**EDIT - I also ran echo $combine to make sure that my GCI was addressing all the files and it is. All files are addressed by the GCI and are echoed, however only a small portion of the files are going into Combined.log

Some of the files that appear to have been skipped are 

D:\TILT_Logs\Dec\12_29\Tilt.12892.2017_12_29.log

and 

D:\TILT_Logs\March\3_6_Kutchey\Tilt.4740.2018_03_06.log

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 21

Answers (1)

HeedfulCrayon
HeedfulCrayon

Reputation: 857

If you used the Add-Content commandlet it will append instead of replace

$combine = GCI 'D:\TILT_Logs' -Recurse -Filter '*.log'

Get-Content $combine.FullName | Add-Content 'D:\TILT_Logs\Combined.log'

EDIT Simplifying these commands into one line also will work, credit to Mathias R. Jessen

Get-ChildItem 'D:\TILT_Logs' -Recurse -Filter '*.log' | Get-Content | Add-Content 'D:\TILT_Logs\Combined.log'

Upvotes: 3

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