There's a relatively useful suggestion floating around on Twitter on how to save results of PowerShell command to a variable and see the results at the same time. <\/p>\n
I'll admit this is a clever technique: you get the results from Get-Process written to the pipeline AND a variable $data. The other way, and frankly I think a better way, is to use Tee-Object. Usually we use Tee-Object to save output to a file and still write the results to the pipeline. <\/p>\n To me, this is much more straightforward and I don't have to remember a punctuation trick. I've also found that using Tee-Object is also better performing. I've tried a number of tests and they all seem to verify that Tee-Object is faster. Here's one test:<\/p>\n Days : 0 PS C:\\Users\\Jeff> measure-command {dir $env:temp -rec | tee -Variable a}<\/p>\n Days : 0 I get the same result with both commands but you can see that Tee-Object is significantly faster.<\/p>\n Using the parentheses trick is handy and especially useful in the interactive console. Personally, I'll probably stick to using Tee-Object and certainly in a script using Tee-Object is easier to follow and understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a relatively useful suggestion floating around on Twitter on how to save results of PowerShell command to a variable and see the results at the same time. PS C:\\> ($data=get-process) I’ll admit this is a clever technique: you get the results from Get-Process written to the pipeline AND a variable $data. The other way,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[98,534,355],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powershell","category-scripting","tag-pipeline","tag-powershell","tag-tee-object"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nPS C:\\> ($data=get-process)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nPS C:\\> get-process | tee -variable data
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nPS C:\\Users\\Jeff> measure-command {($a=dir $env:temp -rec)}<\/p>\n
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\nMinutes : 0
\nSeconds : 0
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\nTotalDays : 5.42365393518518E-06
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\nTotalMinutes : 0.00781006166666667
\nTotalSeconds : 0.4686037
\nTotalMilliseconds : 468.6037<\/p>\n
\nHours : 0
\nMinutes : 0
\nSeconds : 0
\nMilliseconds : 158
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\n<\/code><\/p>\n