Start PowerShell at the terminal, or use the PowerShell Integrated Console on VS Code.
- Run the following command:
Start-Transcript -Path ./command-transcript.txt
- You can also simply run the cmdlet without any arguments; it would automatically create a text file with an auto-generated file name. Get the current system date and time
Get-Date
- List out all the files and directories in the current location.
Get-ChildItem .
- Create a new directory.
New-Item test-transcript -ItemType Directory
- Create a new file within the directory.
New-Item -Path test-transcript/testing-transcript.txt -ItemType File
- Add content to the file.
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- Delete the directory.
Remove-Item -Path ./test-transcript -Recurse
- Stop recording what you did.
Stop-Transcript
- You should have now received the location of the transcript file. Read the contents of the file.
Get-Content -Path ./command-transcript.txt
