Vista - How to display screen output to text file in PowerShell

I want to display the longname(name) and shortname of the output displayed on
Powershell screen to a text file.

$a = dir *.* | foreach { $_.name }
$a
$b = $a | tee-object -file e:\scripts\name.txt | sort

foreach($a in $b) {
write-host $a.substring(0,4),~1.xml

The Output displayed on PS screen is given below:
name.ps1
name.txt
sample.ps1
sample.txt

nam ~1.xml
nam ~1.xml
sam ~1.xml
sam ~1.xml

- I want to display the above outputs nam ~1.xml, sam ~1.xml to a text file
in 2 columns as Longname(name) and shortname.

Please help me out... I m awaiting your response

there are a plethora of ways to accompish this. If you are just concerned
with the text output (which I assume you are as you don't want the screen
output to be in columns) then here is one way of doing it:

ls | sort name | %{"$($_.name) $($_.name.substring(0,4))~1.xml" >>
myfile.txt}

cheers,
n


"Vinod K" <Vinod K@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Neil,

Could u provide the code so to accomplish my task in many ways...

--Vinod K

"Neil Chambers" wrote:

They all depend on the final requirements.

If you can tell me a little more about exactly what it is you're trying to
achieve then I can provide more examples. The one I provided gives you two
columns in a file which is pretty much all you asked for

n

"Vinod K" <VinodK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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# create a calculated property and use [Scripting.FileSystemObject]'s
# GetFile Method, then get the file's ShortName Property
$fso = new-object -c scripting.fileSystemObject
$shortName = @{label = 'Short'
expression = {$fso.getFile($_.fullname).shortName}}

ls | ? {!$_.psIsContainer} | ft Name, $shortName > names.txt

--
Kiron

"Kiron" <Kiron@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A0A58ED8-C80C-4386-B5A9-20A30D5895F9@xxxxxxNote that if you are using PSCX you can use the Get-ShortPath cmdlet and
skip using the FileSystemObject:

ls | ? {!$_.PSIsContainer} | ft Name, @{l='Short';e={Get-ShortPath $_}} >
names.txt

--
Keith