Windows Server - Redirecting Output of Script

I must be missing something basic. I have a simple script that calls
an external command (subinacl):

$homeMapFile = "C:\VOL\AD\data\ad_user_homes.csv"

$prefix = "M:\"

Import-CSV -path $homeMapFile |

foreach-object {
$homeDir = $prefix + $_.HOME_DIR
& subinacl /file $homeDir /display=owner
}


The script is saved in "set_permissions.ps1" So now I want to redirect
all the output to a log file.  I believe this should do what I want:

.\set_permissions.ps1 > output.txt 2>&1

But what happens is this:

1. The output is still displayed to the console.
2. The output is also placed in output.txt, but with a space between
every character, like so:

+ F i l e   M : \ H O M E \ O F F I C E \ J O A N Y U A N

/ o w n e r                           = b u i l t i n \ a d m
i n i s t r a t o r s

Upon further examination, the spaces are actually three null bytes.
So the file really looks like ... 'F', '\0', '\0', '\0', 'i',
'\0', ...

What's going on?  Is this some type of encoding issue? I'd be happy
with UTF-8 by default.

Thanks in advance.

-David

  Marco Shaw [MVP] replied...

There's a microsoft.public.windows.powershell group that would be more
helpful with PowerShell questions.

The out-file cmdlet has an encoding parameter:

PS>help out-file -full
...
-Encoding <string>
Specifies the type of character encoding used in the file. Valid
values are "Unicode", "UTF7", "UTF8", "UTF32",
the default.


...

Marco


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