{"id":2866,"date":"2013-09-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/09\/14\/powertip-use-powershell-to-wait-for-a-key-press\/"},"modified":"2013-09-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-wait-for-a-key-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-wait-for-a-key-press\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Wait for a Key Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn about the Windows PowerShell version of &ldquo;Pause.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to wait for a key in scripts like I used to use &ldquo;Pause&rdquo; in the command console?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>$Host<\/strong>&nbsp;variable in the console:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$HOST.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(&#8220;NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown&#8221;) | OUT-NULL<br \/>$HOST.UI.RawUI.Flushinputbuffer()<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn about the Windows PowerShell version of &ldquo;Pause.&rdquo; &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to wait for a key in scripts like I used to use &ldquo;Pause&rdquo; in the command console? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$Host&nbsp;variable in the console: $HOST.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(&#8220;NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown&#8221;) | OUT-NULL$HOST.UI.RawUI.Flushinputbuffer()<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn about the Windows PowerShell version of &ldquo;Pause.&rdquo; &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to wait for a key in scripts like I used to use &ldquo;Pause&rdquo; in the command console? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$Host&nbsp;variable in the console: $HOST.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(&#8220;NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown&#8221;) | OUT-NULL$HOST.UI.RawUI.Flushinputbuffer()<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}