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re: Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

Marcus — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:48:48 GMT

In your example for Stream Writer it does not output anything to the text file...

You should have $_ in place of your $s

Example:

$stream = [System.IO.StreamWriter] "t.txt"

1..10000 | % {

$stream.WriteLine($_)

}

$stream.close()

re: Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

Martin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:27:02 GMT

Very interesting. However, you compared a little different between these methods. You use the StreamWriter to write line by line, and you use the other methods to write in one big chunk. Maybe this affects performance? I made a comparison myself (using the big chunk method), and the >> method and StreamWriter method had the same performance (both 40 seconds).

re: Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

imbruck2 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:27:57 GMT

$b = 1..10000

$b | Out-File C:\Temp\temp.txt

2.3 seconds

re: Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

Kay — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:50 GMT

@dak

> file.txt doesn't accomplish the same thing

re: Where did my disk space go ? [very long directory names, system directories, symbolink and other hard links ...], meet xdir.exe

mdm — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:47:33 GMT

I use spacemonger http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/, and it is very good for this!

re: Where did my disk space go ? [very long directory names, system directories, symbolink and other hard links ...], meet xdir.exe

Aries — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:41:55 GMT

The tool DiskSpaceFan is better.

http://www.diskspacefan.com

re: Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

Nicolas R — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:33:25 GMT

Merci pour ce post, interessant surtout avec le temps d'execution, A+

re: Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

dak — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:09:57 GMT

1 s with old school language : vbscript ;-)

Petit post sur Powershell et les fichiers

Microsoft Services France Unified Communication Team — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:13:23 GMT

Je viens de publier un petit post rapide sur la méthode d’écriture dans un fichier avec PSH : Powershell

re: Where did my disk space go ? [very long directory names, system directories, symbolink and other hard links ...], meet xdir.exe

JD — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:51:50 GMT

XDIR is nice. If interested in a graphical user interface, try FolderSizes - http://www.foldersizes.com. It can see hidden folders, long paths, etc. as well and lots more.