{"id":2953,"date":"2013-08-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/30\/powertip-capture-console-application-data-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-capture-console-application-data-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-capture-console-application-data-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Capture Console Application Data with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to capture console application data.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I parse the output from a console application by using Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Run the application as normal, but assign it to a Windows PowerShell object&mdash;for example, <br \/><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DriverQuery.exe<\/strong> will display output to the screen:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">$INFO=(DriverQuery.exe)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">This creates an array that you can pipe to <strong>Get-Member<\/strong> to discover available methods or to access individual lines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">$INFO[3]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">$INFO[-1].substring(4,7)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to capture console application data. &nbsp;How can I parse the output from a console application by using Windows PowerShell? Run the application as normal, but assign it to a Windows PowerShell object&mdash;for example, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DriverQuery.exe will display output to the screen: $INFO=(DriverQuery.exe) This creates an array that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to capture console application data. &nbsp;How can I parse the output from a console application by using Windows PowerShell? Run the application as normal, but assign it to a Windows PowerShell object&mdash;for example, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DriverQuery.exe will display output to the screen: $INFO=(DriverQuery.exe) This creates an array that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}