Redirect Write-Host statements to a file

Question

I have a PowerShell script that I am debugging and would like to redirect all Write-Host statements to a file. Is there an easy way to do that?

Answer 1

Until PowerShell 4.0, Write-Host sends the objects to the host. It does not return any objects.

Beginning with PowerShell 5.0 and newer, Write-Host is a wrapper for Write-Information, which allows to output to the information stream and redirect it with 6>> file_name.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849877.aspx

However, if you have a lot of Write-Host statements, replace them all with Write-Log, which lets you decide whether output to console, file or event log, or all three.

Check also:

• Add-Content
• redirection operators like >, >>, 2>, 2>, 2>&1
• Write-Log
• Tee-Object
• Start-Transcript.