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

This worked for me in my first PowerShell script that I wrote few days back:

function logMsg($msg)
{
    Write-Output $msg
    Write-Host   $msg
}

Usage in a script:

logMsg("My error message")
logMsg("My info message")

PowerShell script execution call:

ps> .\myFirstScript.ps1 >> testOutputFile.txt

It's not exactly answer to this question, but it might help someone trying to achieve both logging to the console and output to some log file, doing what I reached here :)