{"id":418,"date":"2009-10-06T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/out-notepad\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:04:31","slug":"out-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/418\/out-notepad\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-Notepad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe this isn\u2019t the most earth shattering PowerShell function you\u2019ll ever come across, but it saves me a few keystrokes. There are times when I want to see the results of&#160; PowerShell expression but the console output is insufficient. I want to see the results in a text file opened in Notepad so I can easily scroll, search or whatever.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Directing output to a text file with <strong>Out-File<\/strong> is trivial and all I have to do is open the file in Notepad. But that takes too much work.&#160; I have to come up with a file name, take some time to open Notepad, clean up the file if I don\u2019t need it.&#160; I mean..really\u2026I\u2019m trying to work here. My solution is a&#160; short function called Out-Notepad.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: silver 1px solid; text-align: left; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-bottom: 4px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding-left: 4px; width: 97.5%; padding-right: 4px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; max-height: 200px; font-size: 8pt; overflow: auto; border-top: silver 1px solid; cursor: text; border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 4px\" id=\"codeSnippetWrapper\">\n<div style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"codeSnippet\">\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">Function Out-Notepad {<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">#this function is designed to take pipelined input<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">#example: get-process | out-notepad<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">&#160;<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    Begin {<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#create the FileSystem COM object<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        $fso=new-object -com scripting.filesystemobject<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        $filename=$fso.GetTempName()<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        $tempfile=Join-Path $env:temp $filename<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#initialize a placeholder array<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        $data=@()<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    } <span style=\"color: #008000\">#end Begin scriptblock<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    <\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    Process {<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#add pipelined data to $data<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        $data+=$_<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    } <span style=\"color: #008000\">#end Process scriptblock<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    <\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    End {<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#write data to the temp file<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        $data | Out-File $tempfile<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#open the tempfile in Notepad<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        Notepad $tempfile<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#sleep for 5 seconds to give Notepad a chance to open the fi<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        sleep 5<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #008000\">#delete the temp file if it still exists after closing Notepad<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">        <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">if<\/span> (Test-Path $tempfile) {del $tempfile}<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">    } <span style=\"color: #008000\">#end End scriptblock<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: white; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">&#160;<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; border-right-style: none; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; font-size: 8pt; border-left-style: none; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px\">} #<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">end<\/span> Function<\/pre>\n<p><!--CRLF--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The function is designed to take pipelined input and will work with any PowerShell version.<\/p>\n<p>The code in the Begin scriptblock executes once before any pipelined input is processed. Here I\u2019m creating the FileSystemObject like I used in VBScript. This object has a handy method called <strong>GetTempName()<\/strong> which returns, naturally, a temporary file name like radF913E.tmp. I use the <strong>Join-Path<\/strong> cmdlet to construct a compl;ete filename using the %TEMP% environmental variable. The last part of the script block is to initialize an array.<\/p>\n<p>This array is used in the Process scriptblock to keep a copy of every object that is piped in to the function. After every object has been processed, the End script block executes. The $data array is piped to <strong>Out-File <\/strong>using the temporary file name. Notepad is then launched to open the file. At this point I have everything I need. The script sleeps for 5 seconds which should be plenty of time for Notepad to open the temp file and load it into memory. Once Notepad is running I can delete the temp file. Most of the time when I\u2019m finished I\u2019m simply going to close Notepad. If I need to save the information then I\u2019ll simply save the file with a new name anyway to a different location. I\u2019m expecting that 9 times out of 10 all I need is a temporary view.<\/p>\n<p>The script file that loads the function also creates an alias of <strong>on<\/strong> so that my command line work can be very quick:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\" face=\"Consolas\">PS C:\\&gt; ps | on<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:F60BB8FA-6F02-4999-8F5E-9DD4E92C4DA7:d17e3b96-61f5-48c7-8b3b-92f968e0af02\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OutNotepad.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Download the function here.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe this isn\u2019t the most earth shattering PowerShell function you\u2019ll ever come across, but it saves me a few keystrokes. 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