Easy one - dumping VM names to a text file

[Cyberfed27]

Hey folks, I am trying to write a script, one of the parts of it needs to get the names of all the VM's and write them to a text file.

However, I want nothing but the server names in the text file.

Here is what I have tried:

Get-VM | Select-Object Name | Out-File "C:\servers.txt"

This yields a text file as follows:

Name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
----                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
SERVER1

SERVER 2

....and so on. Close, but the empty line between server names and the "Name ----"  lines need to go.

Next I tried

$VMs = Get-VM | Select-Object Name

Add-Content - Path "C:\servers.txt" $VMs

This yields a text file as follows:

@{Name=SERVER1}
@{Name=SERVER2}

..and so on.. I dont want the @{Name=}  parts

So I'm close but I just want each server name on one line and no other text or empty lines. Example of what I want is:

SERVER1

SERVER2

SERVER3

ect...ect...thoughts on how I can strip out the other things?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try

Get-VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name | Out-File "C:\servers.txt"

[Cyberfed27]

Exactly what I needed!

Many thanks!

[TomHowarth]

Luc, you are a walking PoSH/PowerCLI reference book

[raffic_ncc]

Awesome...Single Line script.... Perfect gives which gives what i needed..

Mohammed Raffic

http://www.vmwarearena.com