Question

I am attempting to redirect output of a Powershell script to a txt file.

In the Powershell window, I try:

.\script.ps1 > list.txt

But it does not help, all output still gets printed to the window.

I then tried:

.\script.ps1 >& list.txt

And got this error:

Missing file specification after redirection operator.
At line:1 char:21
+ .\script.ps1 > <<<< & list.txt
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingFileSpecification

Answer 1

If you are writing output in script.ps1 using Write-Host (or [Console]::WriteLine) you will either need to change those to Write-Output or do this:

powershell.exe -File test.ps1 > out.txt

By the way > is syntactic sugar for Out-File, they are the same thing.