Handy PowerShell Transcript concept

A co-worker of mine put up this blog entry today, I like it.  I too have closed the PowerShell window before I really wanted to.  I use the F7 key, and the up/down arrows, but there is nothing like a literal log, especially when it comes to working up specific elements of a complex (or even brute force) script.  My thanks to Mr. Jaworski to putting this together – his technique works  on every PS install I have tried it on (so far ).

I modified the instructions Scott lays out, because I don’t like having an unlimited growth file.  I also did not see the point, however well taken, to some of the preliminary setup.  So, I distilled down to one line:

start-transcript "c:\PS log $(get-date -f "yyyy-MM-dd HHmm").txt”

This simple one liner gets you this:

The resulting file looks like this:

Note that the date/time format is in something *I* like, so you might want to change that around a tad.  But all the nice details are there.

Of course, you will need to “stop-transcript” when you get done.

YMMV