{"id":4119,"date":"2013-02-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/23\/powertip-easily-send-output-to-both-the-powershell-console-and-a-variable\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-easily-send-output-to-both-the-powershell-console-and-a-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easily-send-output-to-both-the-powershell-console-and-a-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easily Send Output to Both the PowerShell Console and a Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong> Learn how to send output to both the Windows PowerShell console and to a variable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I easily send Windows PowerShell output to both the console and to a variable?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Tee-Object<\/strong> cmdlet and specify a variable name, as shown here.<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> gps | select name -Last 1 | Tee-Object -Variable a<\/p>\n

Name<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

ZeroConfigService<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $a<\/p>\n

Name<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

ZeroConfigService<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to send output to both the Windows PowerShell console and to a variable.  How can I easily send Windows PowerShell output to both the console and to a variable?  Use the Tee-Object cmdlet and specify a variable name, as shown here. PS C:\\> gps | select name -Last 1 | Tee-Object -Variable a Name —- […]<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to send output to both the Windows PowerShell console and to a variable.  How can I easily send Windows PowerShell output to both the console and to a variable?  Use the Tee-Object cmdlet and specify a variable name, as shown here. PS C:\\> gps | select name -Last 1 | Tee-Object -Variable a Name —- […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","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=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/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=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}