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Oriphix

523 posts

Ultimate Geek

#208376 9-Feb-2017 10:53

Hi Guys,
Need help with the Powershell command to output the results in a csv file.
The file gets created but the contents is blank or shows something which isn't the results.

Using Powershell ISE I can see the command is executing and giving the results but its not writing to the file. I'm sure its something simple that I am missing, just can't spot it.

$servers = "geekzone.co.nz","trademe.co.nz"

foreach ( $server in $servers )
{

Write-Host "Starting Ping for $server 'n" -ForegroundColor Yellow
test-Connection -ComputerName $server -Count 3
Write-Host "Completed `n" -ForegroundColor Yellow

}

$DesktopPath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop") |
Export-Csv -Path "$DesktopPath\Ping.csv" -Append

Also tried to change from Export to Out-File but no dice (however the export and out-file should will give me the file so I think its something else I am missing.

Out-File -filepath "$DesktopPath\Ping.txt"

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Inphinity

2780 posts

Uber Geek

#1717592 9-Feb-2017 11:49

At no point are you passing the output of your test-connection requests to any output - you're only piping the output of

[Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")

to the export-csv cmdlet

Try this:

$servers = "geekzone.co.nz","trademe.co.nz"

$outFile = "$([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'))\Ping.csv"

foreach ( $server in $servers )
{

Write-Output "Starting Ping for $server" | Out-File $outFile -Append
test-Connection -ComputerName $server -Count 3 | Out-File $outFile -Append
Write-Output "Completed"| Out-File $outFile -Append

}

Note that this won't display the output in the console, only in ping.csv on your desktop

Inphinity

2780 posts

Uber Geek

#1717645 9-Feb-2017 13:12

You may need to delete the ping.csv file first

$servers = "geekzone.co.nz","trademe.co.nz"

$outFile = "$([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'))\Ping.csv"

foreach ( $server in $servers )

{

test-Connection -ComputerName $server -Count 3 | Export-Csv $outFile -Append
}