Blending PowerShell and Windows Commands

Recently I had a requirement to obtain tracert (traceroute) information for all of my ConfigMgr 2012 servers. Here’s a quick (and crude) example of how to capture tracert information for each system, and then write the info to its own file for each server.

Systems.txt is a file that has each system listed, one per line. gc is the alias for get-content. We then run a foreach loop to run tracert on each system, capturing the value into $a, then display the output, as well as pipe it to a file.

gc .\systems.txt | % { $a = tracert $_; $a; $a>@($_ + ".txt")}

Happy scripting!

Greg