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Daniel
Asked: 2016-09-27 04:04:58 +0800 CST

powershell: how to print command to file?

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I'm currently using the Out-File cmdlet, like so:

PS> Some-Cmdlet -someswitch | Out-File -filepath .\somefile.txt

It works great.

Is there anyway that I can actually get the command line itself to print to the same file before the output?

In other words, when I open somefile.txt I want to see the following:

Some-Cmdlet -someswitch | Out-File -filepath .\somefile.txt

OUTPUT
OUTPUT
OUTPUT
etc.
scripting powershell shell-scripting powershell-v4.0

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I think you're looking for start-transcript:

    The Start-Transcript cmdlet creates a record of all or part of a Windows PowerShell session in a text file. The transcript includes all command that the user types and all output that appears on the console.

    So you'd want to do:

    start-transcript -path c:\temp\transcript.txt -noclobber

... do sume stuff ...

stop-transcript
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