{"id":4839,"date":"2012-10-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/11\/powertip-write-powershell-output-in-color-without-using-write-host\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-write-powershell-output-in-color-without-using-write-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-write-powershell-output-in-color-without-using-write-host\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Write PowerShell Output in Color Without Using Write-Host"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Write colorized output to the Windows PowerShell console without using the Write-Host<\/b> cmdlet.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can you write output to the Windows PowerShell console without using the Write-Host<\/b> cmdlet?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Set ForegroundColor<\/b> <\/i>to a different color by using $host.Ui.RawUi<\/b>, and then use the Write-Output<\/b> cmdlet to write the output. When you are finished, set the ForegroundColor<\/b> <\/i>back to its original color.<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $t = $host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor = “DarkGreen”<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Write-Output “this is green output”<\/p>\n

this is green output<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor = $t<\/p>\n

PS C:\\><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Write colorized output to the Windows PowerShell console without using the Write-Host cmdlet.  How can you write output to the Windows PowerShell console without using the Write-Host cmdlet?  Set ForegroundColor to a different color by using $host.Ui.RawUi, and then use the Write-Output cmdlet to write the output. When you are finished, set the ForegroundColor back to its original color. PS C:\\> $t = $host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor PS […]<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Write colorized output to the Windows PowerShell console without using the Write-Host cmdlet.  How can you write output to the Windows PowerShell console without using the Write-Host cmdlet?  Set ForegroundColor to a different color by using $host.Ui.RawUi, and then use the Write-Output cmdlet to write the output. When you are finished, set the ForegroundColor back to its original color. PS C:\\> $t = $host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor PS […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/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=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}