How do you do a ‘Pause’ with PowerShell 2.0?

Question

OK, I\'m losing it. PowerShell is annoying me. I\'d like a pause dialog to appear, and it won\'t.

PS W:\\>>> $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(\"NoEcho,Include         


        

Answer 1

The solutions like cmd /c pause cause a new command interpreter to start and run in the background. Although acceptable in some cases, this isn't really ideal.

The solutions using Read-Host force the user to press Enter and are not really "any key".

This solution will give you a true "press any key to continue" interface and will not start a new interpreter, which will essentially mimic the original pause command.

Write-Host "Press any key to continue..."
[void][System.Console]::ReadKey($true)