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

Here is the documentation from Microsoft on how to request confirmations in a cmdlet. The examples are in C#, but you can do everything shown in PowerShell as well.

First add the CmdletBinding attribute to your function and set SupportsShouldProcess to true. Then you can reference the ShouldProcess and ShouldContinue methods of the $PSCmdlet variable.

Here is an example:

function Start-Work {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS Does some work
    .PARAMETER Force
        Perform the operation without prompting for confirmation
    #>
    [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]
    param(
        # This switch allows the user to override the prompt for confirmation
        [switch]$Force
    )
    begin { }
    process {
        if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess('Target')) {
            if (-not ($Force -or $PSCmdlet.ShouldContinue('Do you want to continue?', 'Caption'))) {
                return # user replied no
            }

            # Do work
        }

    }
    end { }
}

Answer 2

Write-Warning "This is only a test warning." -WarningAction Inquire

from: https://serverfault.com/a/1015583/584478

Answer 3

write-host does not have a -confirm parameter.

You can do it something like this instead:

    $caption = "Please Confirm"    
    $message = "Are you Sure You Want To Proceed:"
    [int]$defaultChoice = 0
    $yes = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Yes", "Do the job."
    $no = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&No", "Do not do the job."
    $options = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]]($yes, $no)
    $choiceRTN = $host.ui.PromptForChoice($caption,$message, $options,$defaultChoice)

if ( $choiceRTN -ne 1 )
{
   "Your Choice was Yes"
}
else
{
   "Your Choice was NO"
}

Answer 4

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