Ndtyjky

how can i output the receive-job result to a file?

I tried this but it doesn't work :

$log = "C:springfieldcitrixCitrixAutomation.log"

Get-Job | Receive-Job | Out-File $log

I also tried to save the output of Get-Job | Receive-Job to a variable, but it doesn't work..

$log = "C:springfieldcitrixCitrixAutomation.log"

$getjobarr = @()

Function LogWrite

{

   Param ([array]$logstring)

   $logstring | Out-File $log -Append

}



$getjobarr += Get-Job | Receive-Job



LogWrite $getjobarr

I think that Get-Job and Receive-Job can only output to console only, so how can i achieve it?

Thanks for your help

Job "output" can be redirected to a file e.g.:

PS> Start-Job {Get-ChildItem C:userskeith}



Id     Name            PSJobTypeName   State         HasMoreData     Location             Command

--     ----            -------------   -----         -----------     --------             -------

2      Job2            BackgroundJob   Running       True            localhost            Get-ChildItem C:users...





PS> Receive-Job -id 2 | Out-File job.log

PS> gc .job.log





    Directory: C:userskeith





Mode           LastWriteTime       Length Name

----           -------------       ------ ----

d----     1/21/2014  8:24 PM        <DIR> .ssh

d----      9/9/2014 10:00 PM        <DIR> Bin

d-r--     9/11/2014  9:20 PM        <DIR> Contacts

d-r--     9/11/2014  9:20 PM        <DIR> Desktop

If whatever you're running in the job writes to host then yeah, you're hosed. If you control that, use write-output instead of write-host. Also, make sure you wait until each job is complete before receiving its output unless you can sit in a loop wait until the job state changes to Completed or Failed. You can use Wait-Job to wait for a job to finish before asking for its output.

To add to Keith's answer:

I spent a day banging my head against this for a complex script with a dozen functions. My Out-File would only output to Console, or to Console & txt file, but I could never hide it from the Console.

My fix had two steps:

1. *>&1 on the Receive-Job cmdlet

$logfile = "$env:LOCALAPPDATAtempScriptResult.txt"

   Get-Job | foreach-object {

   Receive-Job -name $_.name *>&1 >> $logfile

   "`r`n=====================================" | Out-File -FilePath $logfile -Append

   }

The *>&1 was key. It forced all data streams (Information and Error) into the output so everything appeared in in the log file

(You can pipe to Out-File instead of >> if you would prefer to write it out.)

2. Find & Replace all Write-Host cmdlets with Write-Output

Most of my functions had Write-Host explanations for error messages. Even when I used *>&1 to redirect the stream it caused the output to show on the Console. Replacing with Write-Output fixed that.

Thanks Keith for the critical info I could not find anywhere else! :D

(Works on PSVersion v5.1, Win10)