PowerShell: send console output to file without deafening this console output

Question

I have a lot of PowerShell script. One main, that calls other, child ones. Those PS scripts in their turn call windows CMD scripts, bash scripts and console applications. All these scripts and applications write messages to console. PowerShell scripts, for example, are using Write-Host scriptlet for this purpose.

Question: how can I easely redirect (send) all this console output to some file, while not deafening (canceling) this console output? I want to be able to see whats going on from console output and also have history of messages in log file.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use the tee equivalent of PowerShell : Tee-Object

PS: serverfault.com and/or superuser.com are more suitable for a question like this.

Answer 2

You can try Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript. It has a couple of limitations like not capturing native exe output. It is also global to PowerShell session.