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    <p>I am using Powershell for some ETL work, reading compressed text files in and splitting them out depending on the first three characters of each line. </p> <p>If I were just filtering the input file, I could pipe the filtered stream to Out-File and be done with it. But I need to redirect the output to more than one destination, and as far as I know this can't be done with a simple pipe. I'm already using a .NET streamreader to read the compressed input files, and I'm wondering if I need to use a streamwriter to write the output files as well.</p> <p>The naive version looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>while (!$reader.EndOfFile) { $line = $reader.ReadLine(); switch ($line.substring(0,3) { "001" {Add-Content "output001.txt" $line} "002" {Add-Content "output002.txt" $line} "003" {Add-Content "output003.txt" $line} } } </code></pre> <p>That just looks like bad news: finding, opening, writing and closing a file once per row. The input files are huge 500MB+ monsters.</p> <p>Is there an idiomatic way to handle this efficiently w/ Powershell constructs, or should I turn to the .NET streamwriter? </p> <p>Are there methods of a (New-Item "path" -type "file") object I could use for this?</p> <p><strong>EDIT for context:</strong></p> <p>I'm using the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip" rel="noreferrer">DotNetZip</a> library to read ZIP files as streams; thus <code>streamreader</code> rather than <code>Get-Content</code>/<code>gc</code>. Sample code:</p> <pre><code>[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("\Path\To\Ionic.Zip.dll") $zipfile = [Ionic.Zip.ZipFile]::Read("\Path\To\File.zip") foreach ($entry in $zipfile) { $reader = new-object system.io.streamreader $entry.OpenReader(); while (!$reader.EndOfFile) { $line = $reader.ReadLine(); #do something here } } </code></pre> <p>I should probably <code>Dispose()</code> of both the $zipfile and $reader, but that is for another question!</p>
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