Write a string to the display, optionally customizing the output. Output can be to any host but is typically the console screen.
Syntax
Write-Host [[-object] Object] [-noNewLine] [-separator Object]
[-foregroundcolor ConsoleColor] [-backgroundColor ConsoleColor]
[CommonParameters]
Key
-object Object
Object to display, typically a string.
-noNewLine
Do not end with a newline character.
-separator
String to output between objects displayed on the console.
-foregroundcolor ConsoleColor
The text color
-backgroundcolor ConsoleColor
Background color
ConsoleColors:
Black, DarkBlue, DarkGreen, DarkCyan, DarkRed, DarkMagenta, DarkYellow,
Gray, DarkGray, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, White
CommonParameters:
-Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -WarningAction, -WarningVariable,
-OutBuffer -OutVariable.
Write-host (and Write-Warning) write only to the host/screen. To also have the output passed to the success pipeline, use Write-Output.
Write-host by default adds a single space separator between items, to remove that you must specify an empty string '' as the separator
Examples
Display text in specific colours:
PS C:\> write-host "The quick brown fox jumped" -foregroundcolor DarkGreen -backgroundcolor white
PS C:\> Write-Host -ForeGroundColor Red "some text in red" -nonewline
Display several variables concatenated together with no separation character:
PS C:\> write-host $one $two -separator ''
onetwo
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love” ~ Marc Chagall
Related PowerShell Cmdlets:
Clear-Host - Clear the screen.
Out-Host - Send output to the host.
Write-Debug - Write a debug message to the host display.
Write-Output - Write an object to the pipeline.
Write-Warning - Write a warning message.