How to Use -confirm in PowerShell

Question

I\'m trying to take user input and before proceeding I would like get a message on screen and than a confirmation, whether user wants to proceed or not. I\'m using the follo

Answer 1

Read-Host is one example of a cmdlet that -Confirm does not have an effect on.-Confirm is one of PowerShell's Common Parameters specifically a Risk-Mitigation Parameter which is used when a cmdlet is about to make a change to the system that is outside of the Windows PowerShell environment. Many but not all cmdlets support the -Confirm risk mitigation parameter.

As an alternative the following would be an example of using the Read-Host cmdlet and a regular expression test to get confirmation from a user:

$reply = Read-Host -Prompt "Continue?[y/n]"
if ( $reply -match "[yY]" ) { 
    # Highway to the danger zone 
}

The Remove-Variable cmdlet is one example that illustrates the usage of the -confirm switch.

Remove-Variable 'reply' -Confirm

Additional References: CommonParameters, Write-Host, Read-Host, Comparison Operators, Regular Expressions, Remove-Variable