Multiple foreground colors in PowerShell in one command

Question

I want to output many different foreground colors with one statement.

PS C:\\> Write-Host \"Red\" -ForegroundColor Red
Red

This output i

Answer 1

I was trying to run this on a Windows Server 2012R2 box under ISE and the function by Jesse Chisholm was failing because for some reason (Get-Host).UI.RawUII.ForegroundColor was -1. To stop this happening and to simplify the function I little I modified it as follows:

function Write-ColorText
{
    # DO NOT SPECIFY param(...)
    #    we parse colors ourselves.

    $allColors = ("-Black",   "-DarkBlue","-DarkGreen","-DarkCyan","-DarkRed","-DarkMagenta","-DarkYellow","-Gray",
                  "-Darkgray","-Blue",    "-Green",    "-Cyan",    "-Red",    "-Magenta",    "-Yellow",    "-White",
                   "-Foreground")

    $color = "Foreground"
    $nonewline = $false

    foreach($arg in $args)
    {
        if ($arg -eq "-nonewline")
        { 
            $nonewline = $true 
        }
        elseif ($allColors -contains $arg)
        {
            $color = $arg.substring(1)
        }
        else
        {
            if ($color -eq "Foreground")
            {
                Write-Host $arg -nonewline
            }
            else
            {
                Write-Host $arg -foreground $color -nonewline
            }
        }
    }

    Write-Host -nonewline:$nonewline
}

I know this is an old post but hopefully this is useful to somebody and thanks Jesse for giving me this wonderful function!!