How to Redirect PowerShell Terminal Output to a File The PowerShell console buffer, while useful, has its limitations. When dealing with thousands of lines of output, you may encounter performance issues or even lose older output due to truncation. However, there’s a straightforward solution to ensure all output is retained for later review: redirect the output to a file. You can accomplish this by using the redirection operator > operator, followed by the name of the file where you want the output to be stored.