PowerShell output and formatting

Question

I have something I have put together to scan computers on my network and look for certain chrome extensions.

It works and displays the information in the PowerShell console. But if it finds the extension in multiple user profiles on a machine it creates a giant blob of information instead of separating it into multiple lines and I would like to have this output to a txt or csv file:

$hostnamestxt = "Server with list of computers"
$computers = get-content “$hostnamestxt”

write-host Scanning........


foreach($computer in $computers){
$BetterNet = "\\$computer\c$\users\*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\gjknjjomckknofjidppipffbpoekiipm"

 if (Test-Path $BetterNet) {
    $a = Get-ChildItem $BetterNet
    write-host BetterNet found on: 
    Write-Host "     "$a 
    write-host 
   }

Martin Brandl · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-26 13:42:28Z

2

You probably want to enumerate the return value of the Get-ChildItem cmdlet:

Get-ChildItem $BetterNet | ForEach-Object {
    write-host BetterNet found on: 
    Write-Host "     "$_ 
    write-host 
}

answered Jan 26, 2017 at 13:42

Martin Brandl

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Joe Clark Over a year ago

This works great at breaking up the blobs of data. Thank you very much. how about outputting it to a file?

Martin Brandl Over a year ago

Instead of using the Write-Host cmdlet, take a look at Set-Content and the Add-Content cmdlet. Be carefull about the encoding (-Encodign parameter)

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