Getting Started with PowerShell

PowerShell streams and redirection

We've talked about the output stream, but it turns out that PowerShell has quite a few streams besides this. Here's the list, including one that was introduced in PowerShell 5:

Stream	Number	Contents
Output	1	Output from commands
Error	2	Error messages
Warning	3	Warning messages
Debug	4	Debug messages
Verbose	5	Verbose output
Information	6	General information (PowerShell 5)

Similar to DOS, you can redirect streams to a file using the greater-than symbol (>). For example, you can send a directory listing to a file as follows:

Dir c:\temp >c:\temp\files.txt

The output is formatted according to standard PowerShell formatting, but since it's just a text file, you can't recreate the objects that ...