powershell saving to file each time rather than memory

From your example it's not clear what you're doing so it would be hard to suggest a modification.  For the command shown you would just add a pipe to Export-CSV at the end, there's no collecting in memory happening.

Get-PublicFolder -Recurse -resultsize:unlimited | foreach {Get-PublicFolderClientPermission $_ } | Export-CSV file.csv -notype

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thanks footech its really that's something not possible with powershell. I wanted to intercede the OS and force the OS to save to the file on each iteration of a value rather than store in memory. Right now the following occurs


Get-PublicFolder -Recurse -resultsize:unlimited | foreach {Get-PublicFolderClientPermission $_

foldername     path
pfo1                pf01\something----------have this value saved or appended directly to file. currently in memory until completed.
pfo2                pf02\something----------have this value saved or appended directly to file. currently in memory until completed
pfo3                pf03\something----------have this value saved or appended directly to file. currently in memory until completed
pfo4                pf04\something----------have this value saved or appended directly to file. currently in memory until completed
pfo5                pf05\something----------have this value saved or appended directly to file. currently in memory until completed

Sorry I was not clear enough let me know if this helps.

With the command you posted, each object will be output to screen as it's retrieved, and it won't be kept in memory.

I am aware of this but when you place thisnin a file export-csv or output-file powershell stores the contents of the output in memory. I was trying to intercede and have this to write to a file each iteration.

thanks