Files

Another area where you should become very confident is working with files, as you will need to work with them very frequently. First, we will take a look at the basics of working with files by retrieving and writing files and the content of the files. This can be achieved with the Get-Content and Set-Content/Out-File cmdlets.

First of all, we will take a dedicated look at how you can export content to a file:

#Storing working location
$exportedProcessesPath ='C:\temp\exportedProcesses.txt'

#Write processes table to file and show the result in Terminal with the -PassThru flag
Get-Process | Set-Content -Path $exportedProcessesPath 

#Open file to verify
psedit $exportedProcessesPath

#retrieving processes and exporting them to file
Get-Process | Out-File $exportedProcessesPath 

#Open file to verify
psedit $exportedProcessesPath #or use notepad to open file

#retrieving processes and exporting them to file with Out-String
Get-Process | Out-String | Set-Content $exportedProcessesPath ...