Redirecting Output of Script David Eisner <deisner[ at ]gmail.com> 10/23/2008 1:48:54 PM I must be missing something basic. I have a simple script that calls an external command (subinacl): $homeMapFile = "C:\VOL\AD\data\ad_user_homes.csv" $prefix = "M:\" Import-CSV -path $homeMapFile | foreach-object { $homeDir = $prefix + $_.HOME_DIR & subinacl /file $homeDir /display=owner } The script is saved in "set_permissions.ps1" So now I want to redirect all the output to a log file. I believe this should do what I want: .\set_permissions.ps1 > output.txt 2>&1 But what happens is this: 1. The output is still displayed to the console. 2. The output is also placed in output.txt, but with a space between every character, like so: + F i l e M : \ H O M E \ O F F I C E \ J O A N Y U A N / o w n e r = b u i l t i n \ a d m i n i s t r a t o r s Upon further examination, the spaces are actually three null bytes. So the file really looks like ... 'F', '\0', '\0', '\0', 'i', '\0', ... What's going on? Is this some type of encoding issue? I'd be happy with UTF-8 by default. Thanks in advance. -David

Re: Redirecting Output of Script "Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw[ at ]_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> 11/9/2008 6:23:49 PM [Quoted Text] > What's going on? Is this some type of encoding issue? I'd be happy > with UTF-8 by default. > > Thanks in advance. There's a microsoft.public.windows.powershell group that would be more helpful with PowerShell questions. The out-file cmdlet has an encoding parameter: PS>help out-file -full .... -Encoding <string> Specifies the type of character encoding used in the file. Valid values are "Unicode", "UTF7", "UTF8", "UTF32", "ASCII", "BigEndianUnicode", "Default", and "OEM". "Unicode" is the default. "Unicode" is the default. "Default" uses the encoding of the system's current ANSI code page. .... Marco -- *Microsoft MVP - Admin Frameworks https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Marco.Shaw *PowerShell Co-Community Director - http://www.powershellcommunity.org *Blog - http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com