CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershell
user1342164
user1342164

Reputation: 1454

Add character to Out-File contents per line?

Is there a way using PowerShell Out-File that for each line inserted into the file to add a * at the beginning and end of each text in the Out-File?

Example: Get-Process | Out-File -FilePath .\Process.txt

Test
Test1

Example Process.txt should contain:

*Test*
*Test1*

Upvotes: 0

Views: 264

Answers (1)

AdminOfThings
AdminOfThings

Reputation: 25001

If you have a collection, which is the output of most commands, you can loop through each element and format the output string. The example below uses the (-f) format operator to build the string.

$collection = @('test','test1','test2')
foreach ($entry in $collection) {
    "*{0}*" -f $entry | Out-File .\Process.txt -Append
}

The case above is simplistic. However, when outputting from a command, you typically get an object. You will need to tweak this to select the object properties you care about. If we adapt the above example for Get-Process, you can do the following:

foreach ($name in (Get-Process).Name) {
    "*{0}*" -f $name | Out-File .\Process.txt -Append
}

A conceptually similar but less verbose option with aliasing that only writes once to the output file:

Get-Process |% {"*$($_.Name)*"} | Out-File .\Process.txt

Upvotes: 1

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