PowerShell Fast Track: Hacks for Non-Coders

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4. Interactive Input

Vikas Sukhija¹  

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Waterloo, ON, Canada

 

This chapter will provide examples where you can add interactive input to your scripts (i.e., the script will ask for input such as entering a password or another attribute such as the path of a CSV or text file).

Read-host

You have used Write-host for printing value to the screen. Now you can use Read-host to get values that are input by a user on the screen:

$x =Read-host "input your Name"

The value of your input is saved in an $x variable so you can use it in the script for further processing, as shown in Figure 4-1.

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