Result shows in console only will not write to a file-CodePudding

I have tried everything I can find online for posting my powershell script result to a text file with no luck. I only get results in the console and no text file is created.

See code below

$rootSitePath = "\\MyServer\JWS_SUL"

$paths = ($rootSitePath   "\"   "UNITED\Image\Ticket\Loadout"),
         ($rootSitePath   "\"   "UNITED\Image\Ticket\Pit2"),
         ($rootSitePath   "\"   "UNITED\Image\Ticket\Photo\Loadout")
         ($rootSitePath   "\"   "UNITED\Image\Ticket\Photo\Pit2")

$folder = $paths
foreach ($folder in $paths){
}
  if ($_.LastWriteTime.Date -ne (Get-Date).ToDay) {
     Write-Output $folder | Out-File -Path c:\temp\Test\BackupResults.txt
}

Console Output

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> C:\temp\JWS\TEST-1.ps1
\\MyServer\JWS_SUL\UNITED\Image\Ticket\Photo\Pit2

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

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# --- Setup ---
$rootSitePath = "\\server\JWS_SUL"
$OutputPath   = "C:\temp\BackupResults.txt"
$CurDate = (Get-Date).ToShortDateString()  

#--- Cleanup from previous runs ---
If (Test-Path -Path "$OutputPath" ) {
  Remove-Item -Path "$OutputPath"
}

#--- Initialize paths - always use Join-Path ---
$paths = @((Join-Path -Path "$rootSitePath" -Childpath "\UNITED\Image\Ticket\Pit2"  )
           (Join-Path -Path "$rootSitePath" -Childpath "\UNITED\Image\Ticket\Loadout")
           (Join-Path -Path "$rootSitePath" -Childpath "\UNITED\Image\Ticket\Photo\Loadout"))


foreach ($folder in $paths){

  #--- Retrieve Folder time as ShortDate
  $FInfo = (Get-item -Path "$Folder").LastWriteTime.Date.ToShortDateString()
 
  if ($FInfo -ne $CurDate ) {
    Write-Output $folder | 
      Out-File -FilePath "C:\temp\BackupResults.txt" -Append
  }

} #End Foreach

Powershell console just shows this

PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\server\JWS_SUL> C:\temp\JWS\TEST-123.ps1

CodePudding user response：

Here's a cleaned up version of your code with comments. It uses several of mkelements comments which I didn't see as I was writing and testing the code.

# --- Setup ---
$rootSitePath = "G:\BEKDocs"
$OutputPath   = "G:\Test\BackupResults.txt"
$CurDate = (Get-Date).ToShortDateString()  

#--- Cleanup from previous runs ---
If (Test-Path -Path "$OutputPath" ) {
  Remove-Item -Path "$OutputPath"
}

#--- Initialize paths - always use Join-Path ---
$paths = @((Join-Path -Path "$rootSitePath" -Childpath "Money"  )
           (Join-Path -Path "$rootSitePath" -Childpath "Outlook Files")
           (Join-Path -Path "$rootSitePath" -Childpath "Access"))


foreach ($folder in $paths){

  #--- Retrieve Folder time as ShortDate
  $FInfo = (Get-item -Path "$Folder").LastWriteTime.Date.ToShortDateString()
 
  if ($FInfo -ne $CurDate ) {
    Write-Output $folder | 
      Out-File -FilePath "G:\Test\BackupResults.txt" -Append
  }

} #End Foreach

Sample File Output:

G:\BEKDocs\Outlook Files
G:\BEKDocs\Access

The Money directory was changed today. Note the conversion to ShortDateString to eliminate the time element in the compare.