Powershell Press Any Key To Continue

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Synopsis

Waits (pauses the session) until a user presses a key. For use in scripts.

Syntax

  • Wait-KeyPress [-Message] [-Quiet]
Powershell Press Any Key To Continue

Description

Powershell Press Any Key To Continue Ise

The Wait-KeyPress cmdlet pauses the Powershell session until the user presses a key.

Parameters

  • Message The message to display to the user. By default the message is 'Press any key to continue...'
  • Quiet Do not display a message.

Inputs

Wait-KeyPress does not accept input objects.

Outputs

Wait-KeyPress does not output any Powershell objects.

Notes

The are no notes associated with the Wait-KeyPress cmdlet.

Example 1

This command will pause the current Powershell session with the message 'Press any key to continue...':

C:PS>Wait-KeyPress

Example 2

This command will pause the current Powershell session with the message 'Hit a button to proceed...':

C:PS>Wait-KeyPress -Message 'Hit a button to proceed...'

Example 3

This command will will pause the current Powershell session without displaying a message to the user:

C:PS>Wait-KeyPress -Quiet

Introducction

Each key is represented by one or more characters. To specify a single keyboard character, use the character itself. For example, to represent the letter A, pass in the string «A» to the method. To represent more than one character, append each additional character to the one preceding it. To represent the letters A, B, and C, specify the parameter as «ABC».

The plus sign (+), caret (^), percent sign (%), tilde (~), and parentheses () have special meanings to SendKeys. To specify one of these characters, enclose it within braces ({}). For example, to specify the plus sign, use «{+}». To specify brace characters, use «{{}» and «{}}». Brackets ([ ]) have no special meaning to SendKeys, but you must enclose them in braces. In other applications, brackets do have a special meaning that might be significant when dynamic data exchange (DDE) occurs.

To specify characters that aren’t displayed when you press a key, such as ENTER or TAB, and keys that represent actions rather than characters, use the codes in the following table.

To specify keys combined with any combination of the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys, precede the key code with one or more of the following codes.

Examples