I received a lot of interest in my Invoke-Flasher script. One comment I received on Twitter was for a way to use it interactively in a script. In essence, he wanted a flashing Read-Host so I took my original concept and tweaked it until I came up with a Read-Host alternative I simply call Read-Host2….
Tag: Read-Host
Press PowerShell Pause to Continue
Everyone once in a while I come across a PowerShell script that behaves like an old-fashioned batch file. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but often these types of scripts put in a pause at the end of script so you can see that it finished. You might have seen a command like this…
Friday Fun – A PowerShell Console Menu
When working in PowerShell, and especially when scripting, you might want to give the user a choice of actions. For example, you might develop a configuration script that another admin or technician will run. Perhaps one of the steps is to configure networking depending on their location so you want to give the person running…
New Comment Help
If you follow my blog I’m sure you noticed that I post a lot of advanced functions and scripts. While I don’t expect every one to be developing advanced functions, the closer you can get the more powerful your work. With the Scripting Games approaching I thought I’d offer up a little something to help…