{"id":72561,"date":"2015-10-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/23\/powertip-record-commands-and-output-from-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:48","slug":"powertip-record-commands-and-output-from-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-record-commands-and-output-from-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Record Commands and Output from PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to easily record commands and output from commands in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;<\/span><\/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 create a text file all commands and output from the commands that I use in Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Start-Transcript<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">To stop the transcript, use&nbsp;<b>Stop-Transcript<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;5.0 on Windows 10,&nbsp;<b>Start-Transcript<\/b>&nbsp;also works inside the Windows PowerShell ISE. <br \/>In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 and earlier it only works in the console.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily record commands and output from commands in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I create a text file all commands and output from the commands that I use in Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Start-Transcript&nbsp;cmdlet. To stop the transcript, use&nbsp;Stop-Transcript. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;5.0 on Windows 10,&nbsp;Start-Transcript&nbsp;also works inside the Windows PowerShell ISE. In [&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":[51,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily record commands and output from commands in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I create a text file all commands and output from the commands that I use in Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Start-Transcript&nbsp;cmdlet. To stop the transcript, use&nbsp;Stop-Transcript. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;5.0 on Windows 10,&nbsp;Start-Transcript&nbsp;also works inside the Windows PowerShell ISE. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72561","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=72561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72561\/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=72561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}