From the course: PowerShell 5 Essential Training
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Working with files and printers - PowerShell Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell 5 Essential Training
Working with files and printers
- Often when you're working with PowerShell, you're gonna get a lot of data on the screen, and you're gonna wanna store that to a file. Let's start by storing it to a text file and maybe sending it out to a printer. We're gonna use the pipeline for that. First of all, let's see if I can find some commandlets ... I'm feeling lucky today ... That will let me work with files. Get-help on file, and wow. There's a lot of them. I'm actually gonna give you a tip here. It's, you become more accustomed to this, but what I'm looking for is a particular verb. I've gotten accustomed to looking for "out," as in "out files." Here's what I'm gonna do. Rather than look for "file" ... Because I wanna be able to send things out to a file and a printer, what do you say we look for "out"? Now, I still would have found them by looking at "file," and I could have also done this for *printer* or *print*. Now, there's a lot of things that came up here. Boy, I really need to refine my search. Let's go ahead…