Creating Text Files

PowerShell offers you a multitude of ways to write information to disk. Here's a quick overview.

1. You can use classic redirection:

This way, you have no control over encoding, though.

2. To control encoding, use Set-Content:

Just make sure you use the same encoding for everything you add to a single file.

3. Or you can use Out-File:

4. Finally, you can use native applications and tools like fsutil. The next line creates a blank text file with a size of 1,000 bytes:

You should note, however, that tools like fsutil require administrator privileges.