I have rewritten this script at least 12 times now and have edited it with different commands well over 150 times trying to fix this. I just can't come up with a way to make it save the TXT file ...

How to create PowerShell script file on Windows 11 and 10 It's possible to create PowerShell script files using any text editor or the legacy ISE application.

It encapsulates the script with a lightweight PowerShell host written in C# and compiles the dynamically generated C# source code in memory to an EXE file.

While you can manually enter the commands to edit files in Terminal editors, in OS X you can set up a service to open files in a desired terminal editor from the Finder's contextual menu.