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PowerShell File Writing Techniques

This document outlines several options for writing data to files in PowerShell, including using the > redirection operator to output command results to a new file, using New-Item to create an empty file, overwriting a file's contents with Set-Content or appending new data to an existing file with Add-Content, piping command output to Out-File to write it to a file, and reading the contents of a file with Get-Content.

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PowerShell File Writing Techniques

This document outlines several options for writing data to files in PowerShell, including using the > redirection operator to output command results to a new file, using New-Item to create an empty file, overwriting a file's contents with Set-Content or appending new data to an existing file with Add-Content, piping command output to Out-File to write it to a file, and reading the contents of a file with Get-Content.

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There are a few options for writing data to

files:
By using the > redirection operator:
get-childitem > c:\[Link]

By using the New-Item cmdlet to create an


empty file:
new-item c:\[Link] -type file

The Set-Content cmdlet will overwrite and


replace data already in the file:

Set-Content C:\[Link] "It was the worst of


times...
Set-Content C:\[Link] "It was the best of
times...
The Add-Content cmdlet will append data to a file:
Add-Content C:\[Link] "It was the worst of
times...
We can pipe data to the Out-File cmdlet (this will
overwrite an existing file):
gci | Out-File c:\[Link]

Use Get-Content cmdlet to read data from a file:


Get-Content C:\[Link]

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