I'm sure that this has been asked before though my limited searching has not yielded anything useful.
I am looking to export to a log file all functions and operations that happen within the application.
I have tried using "transcripts" though that is very limited and will only sometimes net exceptions.
I'd like to see essentially a verbose log of either successes or failures.
How can I accomplish this?
EDIT: To be clear, I want the application to be live writing to an external .txt file while the application is running and operating.
Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
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- chrissmallwood
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Re: Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
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The product doesn't have a feature that does this, but you can probably accomplish this by creating a logging function and call it from all your functions or redirect the verbose stream to a file:
The product doesn't have a feature that does this, but you can probably accomplish this by creating a logging function and call it from all your functions or redirect the verbose stream to a file:
- 4>mylogfile.txt
David
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.
- chrissmallwood
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Re: Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
Thanks Davidc for the suggestion. Can you give me any insight or detail on how to accomplish your suggestion?
Re: Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
I recommend reading the about_Redirect topic:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powers ... rshell-5.1
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powers ... rshell-5.1
David
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.
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- chrissmallwood
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Re: Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
Thanks David,
Unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't I need to append every line of code with the export to text file?
I tried using the PSLogging from (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/E ... 85#content) and while it works great in PowerShell and ISE it will not function within PSS.
Any suggestions?
Unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't I need to append every line of code with the export to text file?
I tried using the PSLogging from (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/E ... 85#content) and while it works great in PowerShell and ISE it will not function within PSS.
Any suggestions?
Re: Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
The easiest way to do this is to create a log function and place it throughout your code.
Add any bells and whistles you need.
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function log{
Param(
[string]LogMsg,
[string]$Type = 'Info',
)
$msg = '{0},{1},"{2}"' -f [datetime]::Now.ToString('s'), $Type, $LogMsg
$msg | Out-File $FilePath -Append
}
#examples
log 'Copy a file'
# error message
log 'An Error occurred' -Type Error
Re: Export Logs of all PS functions during operation.
Looks like you would want to do it at the script file level or write a function as James suggests.
Although the PSLogging module is useful, it is using a hack (Reflection) to intercept the streams and doesn't support hosts other than that of the Console or ISE's internal host.
You could use the "Run in Console" commands to use the module.
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.\script.ps1 *> script.log
You could use the "Run in Console" commands to use the module.
David
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.