Logging shell sessions to a transcript
You may find it useful at times to record the output of your shell sessions in a log file. This can help you save the history of all the commands you've executed and determine the success or failure of automated scripts. In this recipe, you'll learn how to create a PowerShell transcript.
How to do it...
- To create a transcript, execute the
Start-Transcript
cmdlet:Start-Transcript -Path c:\logfile.txt
- You can stop recording the session using the
Stop-Transcript
cmdlet:Stop-Transcript
How it works...
When starting a PowerShell transcript, you can specify a path and a file name that will be used to record your commands and their output. The use of the -Path
parameter
is optional; if you do not provide a file path, ...
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