{"id":5082,"date":"2012-08-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/24\/powertip-create-an-ascii-file-from-inside-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-create-an-ascii-file-from-inside-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-an-ascii-file-from-inside-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create an ASCII File from Inside PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to create an ASCII file from inside Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, I want to create an ASCII text file to hold the results of the Get-Process<\/b> cmdlet. How can this be done?<\/p>\n

               \"Hey,<\/p>\n

a.<\/strong> Pipe the results to the Out-File<\/b> cmdlet and use the -encoding<\/b> parameter to specify ASCII:<\/p>\n

GPS | Out-File -FilePath c:\\fso\\myproc.txt -Encoding ascii<\/p>\n

b.<\/strong> Use the InputObject<\/b> <\/i>parameter of the Out-File<\/b> cmdlet and use the –encoding<\/b> parameter to specify ASCII:<\/p>\n

Out-File -InputObject (gps) -FilePath c:\\fso\\myproc.txt -Encoding ascii<\/p>\n

c.<\/strong> Use redirection like this:<\/p>\n

Get-Process >>c:\\fso\\myprocess.txt<\/p>\n

\n

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

Summary: Learn how to create an ASCII file from inside Windows PowerShell.  I want to create an ASCII text file to hold the results of the Get-Process cmdlet. How can this be done?                 a. Pipe the results to the Out-File cmdlet and use the -encoding parameter to specify ASCII: GPS | Out-File -FilePath […]<\/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-5082","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 create an ASCII file from inside Windows PowerShell.  I want to create an ASCII text file to hold the results of the Get-Process cmdlet. How can this be done?                 a. Pipe the results to the Out-File cmdlet and use the -encoding parameter to specify ASCII: GPS | Out-File -FilePath […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","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=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/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=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}