This is a duplicate of . I thought it would be more appropriate to ask this question here.

I am playing around with PowerShell scripts and they're working great. However, I am wondering if there is any way to also show all the commands that were run, just as if you were manually typing them in yourself. This would be similar to "echo on" in batch files. I looked at the PowerShell command-line arguments, the cmdlets, but I didn't find anything obvious.

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Set-PSDebug -Trace 1

• 0: Turn script tracing off.
• 1: Trace script lines as they run.
• 2: Trace script lines, variable assignments, function calls, and scripts.

For more info:

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Start-Transcript doesn't catch any exe output. That's a show stopper for me. I hate to say it but the best way I've found to do this is:

cmd /c powershell.exe -file c:\users\hillr\foo.ps1 > foo.log

This captures everything AFAICT.

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C:\workspaces\silverlight> start-transcript -?
NAME Start-Transcript
SYNOPSIS Creates a record of all or part of a Windows PowerShell session in a text file.
SYNTAX Start-Transcript [[-Path] <string>] [-Append] [-Force] [-NoClobber] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
DESCRIPTION The Start-Transcript cmdlet creates a record of all or part of a Windows PowerShell session in a text file. The transcript includes all command that the user types and all output that appears on the console.
RELATED LINKS Online version: Stop-Transcript
REMARKS To see the examples, type: "get-help Start-Transcript -examples". For more information, type: "get-help Start-Transcript -detailed". For technical information, type: "get-help Start-Transcript -full".

Note #1: it only records things written to the main console output stream, not Warning / Error / Debug.

Note #2: if you need to record native console applications, you'll need a slight workaround

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I added -verbose to desired commands. E.g.

Copy-Item c:\xxx d:\xxx -verbose

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