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How does one output bold text in powershell?

I got a Powershell script that do some automatic procedures, I use a "Write-Host" at the end of each one of them to tell the technical user that step is finished, but I realize is kind of hard to read and keep track so, ¿Is there a way to output a…
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Does PowerShell has something like "echo off" and "echo on" trigger?

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 has such a function?
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How to determine if Write-Host will work for the current host

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 implementation? (Assume that I understand the difference between…
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Write text in orange with Write-Host

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 parameter, but commands like Write-Warning are able to…
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Why does Write-Host not work when run in a powershell job?

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, World!" # doesn't show } Start-Job -Name MyJob…
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Powershell piping to variable and write-host at the same time

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 this normally works fine but doesn't output what's…
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Write-Host with background colour fills the entire line with background colour when window is resized in powershell

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 have tested this in Windows Terminal, Windows…
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How do I write-host a single property of an element in a powershell array?

I queried Office365 for a list of all users that match the displayName of Chris. I'd like to prompt the user for which Chris they want to select. In doing so I have the following for..each code $tmpUserOffice = Get-MsolUser -SearchString…
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Capture Write-Host output and exit code from Invoke-Command on a Remote System

I have a script located on a remote system. On the server "web12" under C:\tmp\hgttg.ps1: Write-Host "Don't Panic" exit 42 I invoke this script from my local box (both systems running v4.0) using Invoke-Command: $svr = "web12" $cmd =…
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Write-Host cannot parse variable's property

It's quite weird that Write-Host doesn't seem to parse variable's property. PS C:\Users\x> $v=@{item1="kkk";item2="aaa"} PS C:\Users\x> $v.Keys|%{$v.Item($_)} kkk aaa PS C:\Users\x> Write-Host "$v.Count elements" System.Collections.Hashtable.Count…
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Output message with variable part to TeamCity build log from PowerShell

I know that one can output messages to TeamCity build logs via specially decorated Write-Host: write-host "##teamcity[message text='Prepearing backup folder']" What if I need the message to contain a value of a variable as well. I've tried the…
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PowerShell write-host background color continuing past the code

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 test, but it happens a lot more often when write-host is…
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Variables that contains the color of a text in PowerShell

Is it possible to store in a variable the color of a text? I tried this but it doesn't work: $format1 = "-ForegroundColor White" $format2 = "-BackgroundColor Black" Write-Host "Example" $format1 $format2 It returns: "Example -ForegroundColor White…
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Powershell Get Child Item Exclude doesn't work in current directory

As I mentioned in question, this seems like bug in Powershell engine. When I try to print the files in the current directory(where the said powershell script is also present) by excluding some file-types(extensions), it doesn't print anything. For…
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redirecting test-path output to text file

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 screen but the text file does not populate. $cfgs =…
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