hello,



has anybody a sample how to write Textfiles with the PS? ich wish to create
a file, that is not the problem:

$datei=New-Item -ItemType "file" -Path "C:\Test2\" -Name
"protokoll.txt" -force

with "$datei | Get-Member" i found that ehr ist es Method AppendText, but
how to use them to append a new line at the end of the text-file?

thank you for help, Jens

"Jens Schulze" wrote:

> with "$datei | Get-Member" i found that ehr ist es Method AppendText, but
> how to use them to append a new line at the end of the text-file?

As you can see from the output of Get-Member, the method AppendText returns
an
System.IO.StreamWriter object. You can assign that to a variable:

PS> $sw = $datei.AppendText()

You can then see the methods of the StreamWriter by piping it to Get-Member
again:

PS> $sw | gm

You can write to the StreamWriter using it's methods Write() or WriteLine():

PS> $sw.Write("Ich lerne PowerShell.")

When you're finished you can call the Flush() method to save the changes:

PS> $sw.Flush()

To check the content of the file use Get-Content:

PS> Get-Content $datei

An even shorter solution is to pipe strings to Out-File cmdlet which also
has an append parameter:

"Test" | Out-File -filePath $datei -append

And you can use shell redirection operators:

"Test" > $datei # overwrite
"Test" >> $datei # append

--
greetings
dreeschkind

thank you
my fault was, that i wrote

$sw = $datei.AppendText

instead of

$sw = $datei.AppendText()

with the "()" it works fine.

thank you, jens

"dreeschkind" <dreeschkind@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3BA1DABF-2487-4D54-9B2E-F35EC5B07F8D@microsoft.com...
> "Jens Schulze" wrote:
>
>> with "$datei | Get-Member" i found that ehr ist es Method AppendText, but
>> how to use them to append a new line at the end of the text-file?
>
> As you can see from the output of Get-Member, the method AppendText
> returns
> an
> System.IO.StreamWriter object. You can assign that to a variable:
>
> PS> $sw = $datei.AppendText()
>
> You can then see the methods of the StreamWriter by piping it to
> Get-Member
> again:
>
> PS> $sw | gm
>
> You can write to the StreamWriter using it's methods Write() or
> WriteLine():
>
> PS> $sw.Write("Ich lerne PowerShell.")
>
> When you're finished you can call the Flush() method to save the changes:
>
> PS> $sw.Flush()
>
> To check the content of the file use Get-Content:
>
> PS> Get-Content $datei
>
> An even shorter solution is to pipe strings to Out-File cmdlet which also
> has an append parameter:
>
> "Test" | Out-File -filePath $datei -append
>
> And you can use shell redirection operators:
>
> "Test" > $datei # overwrite
> "Test" >> $datei # append
>
> --
> greetings
> dreeschkind

Another approach, using PowerShell cmdlets, is as follows:

PS C:\PowerShellScripts> set-content -path Test3.txt -value "Hello
world!"
PS C:\PowerShellScripts> get-content -path Test3.txt
Hello world!
PS C:\PowerShellScripts> add-content -path Test3.txt -value "`n"
PS C:\PowerShellScripts> get-content -path Test3.txt
Hello world!


PS C:\PowerShellScripts>

Notice that extra whitespace (more than one line it seems) is added by
the add-content cmdlet.

Andrew Watt MVP

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:14:01 -0700, dreeschkind
<dreeschkind@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>"Jens Schulze" wrote:
>
>> with "$datei | Get-Member" i found that ehr ist es Method AppendText, but
>> how to use them to append a new line at the end of the text-file?
>
>As you can see from the output of Get-Member, the method AppendText returns
>an
>System.IO.StreamWriter object. You can assign that to a variable:
>
>PS> $sw = $datei.AppendText()
>
>You can then see the methods of the StreamWriter by piping it to Get-Member
>again:
>
>PS> $sw | gm
>
>You can write to the StreamWriter using it's methods Write() or WriteLine():
>
>PS> $sw.Write("Ich lerne PowerShell.")
>
>When you're finished you can call the Flush() method to save the changes:
>
>PS> $sw.Flush()
>
>To check the content of the file use Get-Content:
>
>PS> Get-Content $datei
>
>An even shorter solution is to pipe strings to Out-File cmdlet which also
>has an append parameter:
>
>"Test" | Out-File -filePath $datei -append
>
>And you can use shell redirection operators:
>
>"Test" > $datei # overwrite
>"Test" >> $datei # append