PowerShell “echo on”

Question

This is a duplicate of https://serverfault.com/questions/102098/powershell-script-showing-commands-run. I thought it would be more appropriate to ask this question here.

Answer 1

Set-PSDebug -Trace 1

• 0: Turn script tracing off.
• 1: Trace script lines as they run.
• 2: Trace script lines, variable assignments, function calls, and scripts.

For more info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/set-psdebug?view=powershell-6

Answer 2

C:\workspaces\silverlight> start-transcript -?

NAME
    Start-Transcript

SYNOPSIS
    Creates a record of all or part of a Windows PowerShell session in a text file.


SYNTAX
    Start-Transcript [[-Path] <string>] [-Append] [-Force] [-NoClobber] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]


DESCRIPTION
    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.


RELATED LINKS
    Online version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113408
    Stop-Transcript 

REMARKS
    To see the examples, type: "get-help Start-Transcript -examples".
    For more information, type: "get-help Start-Transcript -detailed".
    For technical information, type: "get-help Start-Transcript -full".

Note #1: it only records things written to the main console output stream, not Warning / Error / Debug.

Note #2: if you need to record native console applications, you'll need a slight workaround

Answer 3

Start-Transcript doesn't catch any exe output. That's a show stopper for me. I hate to say it but the best way I've found to do this is:

cmd /c powershell.exe -file c:\users\hillr\foo.ps1 > foo.log

This captures everything AFAICT.

Answer 4

I added -verbose to desired commands. E.g.

Copy-Item c:\xxx d:\xxx -verbose