How to pipe the output of a command to a file without powershell changing the encoding?

Question

I want to pipe the output of a command to a file:

PS C:\\Temp> create-png > binary.png

I noticed that Powershell changes the encoding

Answer 1

Create a batchfile containing the line

create-png > binary.png

and call that from Powershell via

& cmd /c batchfile.bat

If you'd rather pass the command to cmd as command line parameter:

$x = "create-png > binary.png"
& cmd /c $x