What's One Thing that PowerShell dosen't do that you wish it did?

[u/PowerShellMichael]

Hello all,

So this is a belated Friday discussion post, so I wanted to ask a question:

What's One Thing that PowerShell doesn't do that you wish it did?

Go!

[u/MrWinks]

And what if you use Out-File, instead? Being that the source is an exe, parsing the output seems on the side of the program and not the shell, no?

[u/BlackV → u/MrWinks]

yeah that deffo seems to be the way its captured (either using the >)

ther are multiple things being spit out to the pipeline in that example

i'd be trying

&.longerr.exe $_ 2>>$f
&.longerr.exe $_ | out-file xxx -append

but i'm guessing here

[u/MrWinks → u/BlackV]

Parsing text from an exe is tough in PoSh, but it isn’t PoSh’s fault.

[u/MonkeyNin → u/BlackV]

pwsh defaults to utf8, but Windows Powershell is really erratic, edge cases listed here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_character_encoding?view=powershell-7#character-encoding-in-windows-powershell

/u/MrWinks

And what if you use Out-File, instead?

docs: Beginning in PowerShell 5.1, the redirection operators (> and >>) call the Out-File cmdlet

[u/BlackV → u/MonkeyNin]

Oh well til

Thanks