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Please find attached a copy of the file that is written

Yes it does .

i think this has come up before and is why i use execute shell command and echo what i want to the text file instead

I've used the execute shell command in some cases to get around some issues when I want to generate a log of a bunch of stuff (obviously depends what you're doing though), something like this-  

Create new file-

echo do something >> #vAgentConfiguration.AgentTempDir#\log.txt

Append to file-

echo do something >>>> #vAgentConfiguration.AgentTempDir#\log.txt

New line-

echo[ >> #vAgentConfiguration.AgentTempDir#\Log.txt