I recently wrote a script and want to share it with my colleagues. It’s a simple copy and paste program that creates log-files after each run. The problem is that I used this: start transcript -Path C:\Users…

The program works fine but if anyone else runs the script it won’t be able to create log-files, since the directory is a copy of mine.

Now to my question: Is there anyway that the program can find out the directory where each user saved the script so it can create a sub-folder in that directory and then dump the logs in there?

Thank you in advance

CodePudding user response：

The path to the folder containing the currently executing script can be obtained through the $PSScriptRoot automatic variable:

Start-Transcript -OutputDirectory $PSScriptRoot

CodePudding user response：

Here's how I record PowerShell sessions using the Start-Transcript cmdlet. It creates a log file, where the script is run from.

#Log File Paths
$Path = Get-Location
$Path = $Path.ToString()
$Date = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss"
$Post = "\"   (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss")   "-test.log"

$PostLog = $Path   $Post
$PostLog = $PostLog.ToString()

#Start Transcript
Start-Transcript -Path $PostLog -NoClobber -IncludeInvocationHeader

#Your Script
Get-Date

#End Transcript
Stop-Transcript -ErrorAction Ignore