PowerShell output to file

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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()"

Keith Hill · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 02:45:04Z

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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

edited Feb 7, 2013 at 2:45

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 1:17

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Gainster Over a year ago

Where the file will be save?

Frode F. Over a year ago

results.txt is a relative path = it will be saved in the folder your powershell session is in. If you don't know what location that will be, use an aboslute path (e.g. c:\results.txt)

Owen B · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 19:38:35Z

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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)

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 19:38

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