How do I output text without a newline in PowerShell?

Question

I want my PowerShell script to print something like this:

Enabling feature XYZ......Done

The script looks something like this:

Answer 1

$host.UI.Write('Enabling feature XYZ.......')
Enable-SPFeature...
$host.UI.WriteLine('Done')

Answer 2

desired o/p: Enabling feature XYZ......Done

you can use below command

$a = "Enabling feature XYZ"

Write-output "$a......Done"

you have to add variable and statement inside quotes. hope this is helpful :)

Thanks Techiegal

Answer 3

You can absolutely do this. Write-Output has a flag called "NoEnumerate" that is essentially the same thing.

Answer 4

Yes, as other answers have states, it cannot be done with Write-Output. Where PowerShell fails, turn to .NET, there are even a couple of .NET answers here but they are more complex than they need to be.

Just use:

[Console]::Write("Enabling feature XYZ.......")
Enable-SPFeature...
Write-Output "Done"

It is not purest PowerShell, but it works.

Answer 5

There seems to be no way to do this in PowerShell. All of the previous answers are not correct, because they do not behave the way Write-Output behaves but more like Write-Host which doesn't have this problem anyway.

The closes solution seems to use Write-Host with the -NoNewLine parameter. You can not pipe this which is a problem generally, but there is a way to override this function as described in Write-Host => Export to a file, so you can easily make it accept the parameter for an output file. This is still far from a good solution. With Start-Transcript this is more usable, but that cmdlet has problems with native applications.

Write-Outputsimply can't do what you need in a general context.

Answer 6

Write-Host -NoNewline "Enabling feature XYZ......."