eg, if you execute this command in a powershell session write-host 'hello' -ForegroundColor 'red' -BackgroundColor 'cyan' resizing the window causes the background colour to fill the entire line:...

I'm trying to write a small powershell script that does a few things 1) Parses Inbox items in my outlook 2) Searches for a RegEx string 3) Dumps the line that matches the RegEx string into a CSV ...

this is from VS code, also happens in PowerShell 7.3 in Windows Terminal the code is this: write-host "text text text" -ForegroundColor Magenta -BackgroundColor white that's just for a...

Is there any sane, reliable contract that dictates whether Write-Host is supported in a given PowerShell host implementation, in a script that could be run against any reasonable host implementatio...

I'm wondering if it's possible to write some coloured-text in orange with Write-Host (or with another PowerShell Cmdlet). It seems Orange is not an available color for the -ForegroundColor paramet...

Sorry if I'm being a dumb powershell noob, but what's wrong with jobs apparently being unable to write to the terminal? And how can I fix that? # test.ps1 function myjob { Write-Host "Hello, ...

Hello all and thanks for your time in advance; I'm running into a slight issue. I'm running a command and piping it into a variable so i can manipulate the output. $variable = some command thi...

The txt file is just a bunch of UNC paths, i am trying to get a list of UNC paths from this text file put into another text file after the test-path is validated. it shows the validated paths on sc...

cmd/batch file could turn on and turn off "echo". So in PowerShell, I have a bunch of "write-host" output, I want somewhere to turn on / off write-host for debugging convenience. Does PowerShell h...

I am hashing all the files in one location, an origin folder, and writing the hashes to a variable and then doing the same to all the files in another location, a destination folder: $origin = Get...

When I Write-Host from my .ps1 file I see: Parentfolder >> ChildFolder When I output to a file, I see: ParentFolder >> ChildFolder I am using a simple write-host ($childgroup.name...

I am new to PowerShell and while doing some code I came through this thing. While I use Write-Host and Write-Output to perform the same query, I get different results: PS> Write-Output $PSVersi...