and there's no sensible way to save the intermediate value of a pipeline in a file Sounds like you are looking for Tee-Object[0]. "Saves command output in a f

and there's no sensible way to save the intermediate value of a pipeline in a file Sounds like you are looking for Tee-Object[0]. "Saves command output in a file or variable and also sends it down the pipeline." And of course Microsoft have missed the opportunity to fix the path separator. Windows supports both path separators in pretty much all cases (open files, changing directories, etc) PS C:\> d: PS D:\> cd /projects/node_modules/immutable/node_modules/uglify-js/node_modules PS D:\projects\node_modules\immutable\node_modules\uglify-js\node_modules> Text output is crippled I guess this depends on what you want out of the system. Some options are: "format-table -auto" which provides a nicely formatted table view of the data "format-list" which provides each property on a separate line with a blank line between objects "format-custom" which allows you to create your own views of objects (with a very readable default), which has ultimate flexibility "converto-csv" which output the object as a CSV (or with custom delimiters such as TSV) "converto-html" which outputs the object as an html table (with somewhat customizable markup) "convertto-xml" similar to the above But really, if it's possible, then it makes sense to use the object pipeline until you're done (so that different parts of the pipeline can use different parts of the object). Then spitting out CSV, TSV, XML, etc should get interop with basically every other tool that's going to process text in some way. [0] - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849937.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849937.aspx