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Oriphix

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# 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"

Regs

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# 1717590 9-Feb-2017 11:48

Looks like you're not piping your output to the file . Either pipe each line to file, or pipe to variable and then pipe variable to file.

See some exampeles here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/4.0/microsoft.powershell.utility/out-file

(sorry about short answer, typing from phone in dark in conference session)

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Inphinity

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# 1717592 9-Feb-2017 11:49

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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

Oriphix

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# 1717598 9-Feb-2017 12:09

Thanks for the prompt reply guys.

@Inphinity that works great.

Do you know how I can format the excel so that each column goes into a separate cell rather then in the first one?

I found this article which says you can use

GPS winword,Excel,Outlook | Export-Csv c:\fso\procoff.csv –NoTypeInformation

However the export-csv bit you have removed and added it in one line. Is there a way to add that in the script?

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2011/09/23/use-powershell-to-work-with-csv-formatted-text/

Inphinity

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# 1717645 9-Feb-2017 13:12

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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
}

Oriphix

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# 1717739 9-Feb-2017 15:14

Thanks for your help :) That works great now.