How to pipe the output of a command to the printer in Windows 10

ewnowak · 26 Aug 2016

I'm at the command line.
I want the output of the "set" command to go directly to my printer. I tried the following:

set | notepad.exe

I expected the output of the set command to become input to the notepad.exe command
which then would print it out. Instead I get a blank notepad screen.
I know the following works:

set > filex
notepad.exe filex

This brings up the filex contents in notepad, which I can then print out.
I would prefer to do it with one command.

Superfly · 26 Aug 2016

$Content ="Some text"
Set-Content -Path "myfile.txt" -Value $Content
Invoke-Item "myfile.txt"

Edit: I misread the requirement... is this what you want?

#Print the file to default printer
Get-Content -Path "myfile.txt" | Out-Printer