This is probably a very obvious question.. I would like to output variables and values out in a PowerShell script by setting up flags and seeing the data matriculate throughout the script.
How would I do this?
For example, what would be the PowerShell equivalent to this PHP:
echo "filesizecounter : " . $filesizecounter
?
PowerShell interpolates does it not?
In PHP
echo "filesizecounter : " . $filesizecounter
can also be written as:
echo "filesizecounter : $filesizecounter"
In PowerShell something like this should suit your needs:
Write-Host"filesizecounter : $filesizecounter"
There are several ways:
Write-Host: Write directly to the console, not included in function/cmdlet output. Allows foreground and background colour to be set.
Write-Debug: Write directly to the console, if $DebugPreference set to Continue or Stop.
Write-Verbose: Write directly to the console, if $VerbosePreference set to Continue or Stop.
The latter is intended for extra optional information, Write-Debug for debugging (so would seem to fit in this case).
Additional: In PSH2 (at least) scripts using cmdlet binding will automatically get the -Verbose and -Debug switch parameters, locally enabling Write-Verbose and Write-Debug (i.e. overriding the preference variables) as compiled cmdlets and providers do.
Powershell has an alias mapping echo to Write-Host, so:
echo "filesizecounter : $filesizecounter" (PHP)
echo "filesizecounter : $filesizecounter" (Powershell)
By far the easiest way to echo in powershell, is just create the string object and let the pipeline output it:
$filesizecounter = 8096
"filesizecounter : $filesizecounter"
Of course, you do give up some flexibility when not using the Write-* methods.