Open, Write and Close the file using Powershell

Question

Hi All,
I need to create/open a file and write some data into it and close that file.
Could anyone please help me with this.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You don't need to explicitly create, open, or close a file in Powershell.  Here are some ways to write to a file, in addition to New-Item:
$text = 'Hello World'
# Create file:
$text | Set-Content 'file.txt'
#or
$text | Out-File 'file.txt'
#or
$text > 'file.txt'
# Append to file:
$text | Add-Content 'file.txt'
#or
$text | Out-File 'file.txt' -Append
#or
$text >> 'file.txt'
Grant Ward, a.k.a. Bigteddy
The problem with Out-File is that it works like the console. When text is output, it will be truncated if it is wider than the default. So if you are looking for something where you need to store lots of long strings, then you may want to choose a different
route, or ensure than you specify a width for your output.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176924.aspx
For example to get 200 characters of width:
$text | Out-File
'myfile.txt' -width 200
I do not know for certain if there is a limit to how wide it can be. I also assume the default is the standard console width (80 characters I believe.)