Lets start with the second problem: There are various ways to redirect PowerShell output to a file.
- Shell redirect with a greater than sign (
>) to create/overwrite output or two greater than signs (>>) to append output.
- Use Out-File [WayBack] with a filename and either
-FilePath (default, similar to >) or -Append (similar >>).
I write “similar” as they are not fully equivalent. That’s where Format-Table [WayBack] with the -AutoSize parameter comes in (with or without a -Wrap parameter).
Apart from Format-Table displaying only 10 columns by default (see below), the -AutoSize will change columns presentation depending not just on the -Wrap parameter but also to the total width it thinks it has available.
Useful Format-Table parameters
First the representation:
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