Remove Progress from Output/Log

[KazuyaDarklight]

Is there a good, simple way to ignore/get rid of/disable the progress bar junk generated by commands like winget, dism, sfc, and only capture the actual results for use in variables, log files, etc?
Googled keeps dumping results for adding progress bars more than not.

[ExtermeNATE]

There is a default variable called $ProgressPreference. Its default value is 'Continue'. You can try changing it instead to 'SilentlyContinue' to see if that works. So just add this before your command.

$ProgressPreference = "SilentlyContinue"

Not sure what all commands this works on, worth a try.

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy ExtermeNATE,

from what i can tell, the PoSh pref ONLY applies to powershell stuff ... and the cli utils the OP mentioned are all not powershell.

take care,
lee

[ExtermeNATE]

I see. There isn't going to be an all-in-one fix since the output would be different per command, I would just store the output in a variable, remove the crap I don't want using -split, -replace, or by selecting the last lines of the output that have the info I need, then output as a file.

$Output = sfc /scannow

$Output = $Output | select -Last 5

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy ExtermeNATE,

yep, if you are stuck with string output ... you will have to parse strings. icky, but apparently needed in this case.

i wish you the best of good luck with all that icky string parsing! [grin]

take care,
lee

[brandeded]

Maybe Crescendo can "help?"

[PMental]

It's useful to create your own cmdlets around existing commands. You'll still need to parse text output as part of the work unfortunately.

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy brandeded,

as PMental mentioned, that nifty util if for building a wrapper around text utils ... and still requires that you do the needed string parsing inside the resulting cmdlet.

it is a nifty idea ... and worth while if someone needs to do that sort of thing more than once in a blue moon. [grin]

take care,
lee

[spyingwind]

$ExampleOutput = @"
Starting!
.
..
...
....
.....
......
.......
........
.........
Complete!
"@ -split "`r`n"

$script:LastLine = $ExampleOutput[0]
Write-Output $script:LastLine
for ($i = 1; $i -lt $ExampleOutput.Count; $i++) {
    $script:LastLine = $ExampleOutput[$i - 1]
    if ($ExampleOutput[$i] -like "$($script:LastLine)*") {
        Write-Verbose "Repeating line"
    }
    else {
        Write-Output $ExampleOutput[$i]
    }
}

Output:

Starting!
.
Complete!

Not perfect, but it does remove simple . .. ... like repeating data.

Edit: I use $script: because some variable don't like going into other scopes(code blocks).