logging line by line results

I'm used to Korn shell scripts and in korn, you can log within the scripts or the whole script itself.

ie.

#start log file
echo > c:\scripts\logfile.log
echo 'date' >> c:\scripts\logfile.log
copy file1 file2 >> c:\scripts\logfile.log 2>&1
echo "end script" >> c:\scripts\logfile.log

alternatively you can even do

myscript.ksh > c:\scripts\logfile.log

I can't to seem to do this in powershell.  For example, I've created a simple function script that displays the computer name, windows name, service pack level and os version #.

From another script, i wanted to call this function and log the information.

ie.
$objLogFile = New-Item -type file "c:\scripts\logfile.log" -Force
GetComputerInfo | Out-File c:\scripts\logfile.log

The log file is empty.

I've tried
GetComputerInfo > c:\scripts\logfile.log

I get nothing.

I've looked at the start-transcript/end-transcript but that's like writing another script to log a script.

Thanks in advance!

Well, it will really depend on what GetComputerInfo is doing. Post it if you want more specific help. In the meantime, normal stream redirection works fine in PS, so:

GetComputerInfo > c:\scripts\logfile.log

function GetComputerInfo {
$strComputerName = Get-Content env:computername
$objOperatingSystem = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_OperatingSystem -Namespace "root\CIMV2" -ComputerName $strComputerName

write-host $objOperatingSystem.__SERVER
write-host $objOperatingSystem.Caption
write-host $objOperatingSystem.Version
write-host $objOperatingSystem.CSDVersion

Here is GetComputerInfo

Change Write-Host to Write-Output so the output goes to STDOUT.

Hey that seems to have work! :)

Thanks much!