Getting TSV file output excluding 2 resource types from the az resource list in Azure CLI

Question

I need to get the azure resource list from the azure CLI excluding 2 kinds of resource types and output the file to a TSV file. I was able do this via PowerShell from the following command.

PowerShell Command

get-azresource | where ResourceType -notmatch microsoft.network/privatednszones/virtualnetworklinks | where ResourceType -notmatch microsoft.insights/actiongroups | export-csv C:\Users\7.csv

I need to get this result from Azure CLI excluding the mentioned resource types to TSV file (Since we cannot get the Azure CLI output in CSV)

Answer 1

You need to lookup the info for Export-Csv , where you can see it has a parameter -Delimiter you use to set a different character as field separator (in your case a TAB character) instead of the default comma .

To prevent an extra line on top of the output file with field type definitions, there is also a switch -NoTypeInformation

Then looking at your code I have some remarks:

• You use -notmatch which is a regex comparison operator, but the strings to compare against have characters that have special meaning in regex (most notably the dot)
• You seem to not use quotes anywhere and because your strings and output path do not contain spaces, in this case that is not a problem. However, I think it is a good habit to always use single quotes around such strings and paths

Try

# the resource types to exclude
$exclude = 'microsoft.network/privatednszones/virtualnetworklinks', 'microsoft.insights/actiongroups'
# create a regex string from the $exclude array, where the elements are joined with the regex OR ('|')
$notThese = ($exclude | ForEach-Object { [regex]::Escape($_) }) -join '|'

Get-AzResource | Where-Object {$_.ResourceType -notmatch $notThese} | 
Export-Csv -Path 'C:\Users\7.tsv' -Delimiter "`t" -NoTypeInformation