How can I append files using export-csv for PowerShell 2?

Question

$filesremoved | export-csv -Path E:\Code\powershell\logs\filesremoved.txt -NoTypeInformation

I've also tried

$filesremoved | export-csv -Path E:\Code\powershell\logs\filesremoved.txt -NoTypeInformation -NoClobber

The file appears to be overwritten every time. Is there a way to keep adding content to the file?

I get errors

Export-Csv : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Append'.

Answer 1

The -Append parameter of Export-Csv doesn't exist until PowerShell 3.0.

One way to work around it in PowerShell 2.0 is to import the existing CSV, create some new rows, append the two collections, and export again. For example, suppose test.csv:

"A","B","C"
"A1","B1","C1"
"A2","B2","C2"

You could append some rows to this CSV file using a script like this:

$rows = [Object[]] (Import-Csv "test.csv")
$addRows = 3..5 | ForEach-Object {
  New-Object PSObject -Property @{
    "A" = "A{0}" -f $_
    "B" = "B{0}" -f $_
    "C" = "C{0}" -f $_
  }
}
$rows + $addRows | Export-Csv "test2.csv" -NoTypeInformation

Run this script and the content of test2.csv will be:

"A","B","C"
"A1","B1","C1"
"A2","B2","C2"
"A3","B3","C3"
"A4","B4","C4"
"A5","B5","C5"

Answer 2

I have no idea what $filesremoved include, but to append CSV-output in PS2.0, you could try somthing like this:

$filesremoved | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation | Select-Object -Skip 1 | Out-File -Append -FilePath "test2.csv"

Select-Object -Skip 1 is used to remove the header. You should however specify the columns-order you need, the delimiter and maybe encoding, like:

$filesremoved | Select-Object -Property Name, Date | ConvertTo-Csv -Delimiter ";"  -NoTypeInformation | Select-Object -Skip 1 | Out-File -Append -Encoding ascii -FilePath "test2.csv"

Answer 3

One possibility:

$CSVContent = $filesremoved | ConvertTo-Csv
$CSVContent[2..$CSVContent.count] | add-content E:\Code\powershell\logs\filesremoved.txt