PSWriteColor.psm1
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function Write-Color { <# .SYNOPSIS Write-Color is a wrapper around Write-Host. It provides: - easy manipulation of colors, - logging output to file (log) - nice formatting options out of the box. .DESCRIPTION Author: przemyslaw.klys at evotec.pl Project website: https://evotec.xyz/hub/scripts/write-color-ps1/ Project support: https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteColor Original idea: Josh (https://stackoverflow.com/users/81769/josh) version 0.5 (25th April 2018 - added backgroundcolor - added aliases T/B/C to shorter code - added alias to function (can be used with "WC") - fixes to module publishing version 0.4.0-0.4.9 (25th April 2018) - published as module - fixed small issues version 0.31 (20th April 2018) - Added Try/Catch for Write-Output (might need some additional work) - Small change to parameters version 0.3 (9th April 2018) - added -ShowTime - added -NoNewLine - added function description - changed some formatting version 0.2 - added logging to file version 0.1 - first draft Notes: - TimeFormat https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx .EXAMPLE Write-Color -Text "Red ", "Green ", "Yellow " -Color Red,Green,Yellow Write-Color -Text "This is text in Green ", "followed by red ", "and then we have Magenta... ", "isn't it fun? ", "Here goes DarkCyan" -Color Green,Red,Magenta,White,DarkCyan Write-Color -Text "This is text in Green ", "followed by red ", "and then we have Magenta... ", "isn't it fun? ", "Here goes DarkCyan" -Color Green,Red,Magenta,White,DarkCyan -StartTab 3 -LinesBefore 1 -LinesAfter 1 Write-Color "1. ", "Option 1" -Color Yellow, Green Write-Color "2. ", "Option 2" -Color Yellow, Green Write-Color "3. ", "Option 3" -Color Yellow, Green Write-Color "4. ", "Option 4" -Color Yellow, Green Write-Color "9. ", "Press 9 to exit" -Color Yellow, Gray -LinesBefore 1 Write-Color -LinesBefore 2 -Text "This little ","message is ", "written to log ", "file as well." ` -Color Yellow, White, Green, Red, Red -LogFile "C:\testing.txt" -TimeFormat "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" Write-Color -Text "This can get ","handy if ", "want to display things, and log actions to file ", "at the same time." ` -Color Yellow, White, Green, Red, Red -LogFile "C:\testing.txt" # Added in 0.5 Write-Color -T "My text", " is ", "all colorful" -C Yellow, Red, Green -B Green, Green, Yellow wc -t "my text" -c yellow -b green wc -text "my text" -c red #> [Alias("wc")] param ( [alias ("T")] [String[]]$Text, [alias ("C")] [ConsoleColor[]]$Color = "White", [alias ("B")] [ConsoleColor[]]$BackGroundColor = $null, [int] $StartTab = 0, [int] $LinesBefore = 0, [int] $LinesAfter = 0, [alias ("L")] [string] $LogFile = "", [string] $TimeFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", [alias ('LogTimeStamp')][bool] $LogTime = $true, [ValidateSet("unknown", "string", "unicode", "bigendianunicode", "utf8", "utf7", "utf32", "ascii", "default", "oem")][string]$Encoding = 'Unicode', [switch] $ShowTime, [switch] $NoNewLine ) $DefaultColor = $Color[0] if ($BackGroundColor -ne $null -and $BackGroundColor.Count -ne $Color.Count) { Write-Error "Colors, BackGroundColors parameters count doesn't match. Terminated." ; return } if ($Text.Count -eq 0) { return } if ($LinesBefore -ne 0) { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $LinesBefore; $i++) { Write-Host -Object "`n" -NoNewline } } # Add empty line before if ($ShowTime) { Write-Host -Object "[$([datetime]::Now.ToString($TimeFormat))]" -NoNewline} # Add Time before output if ($StartTab -ne 0) { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $StartTab; $i++) { Write-Host -Object "`t" -NoNewLine } } # Add TABS before text if ($Color.Count -ge $Text.Count) { # the real deal coloring if ($BackGroundColor -eq $null) { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Text.Length; $i++) { Write-Host -Object $Text[$i] -ForegroundColor $Color[$i] -NoNewLine } } else { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Text.Length; $i++) { Write-Host -Object $Text[$i] -ForegroundColor $Color[$i] -BackgroundColor $BackGroundColor[$i] -NoNewLine } } } else { if ($BackGroundColor -eq $null) { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Color.Length ; $i++) { Write-Host -Object $Text[$i] -ForegroundColor $Color[$i] -NoNewLine } for ($i = $Color.Length; $i -lt $Text.Length; $i++) { Write-Host -Object $Text[$i] -ForegroundColor $DefaultColor -NoNewLine } } else { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Color.Length ; $i++) { Write-Host -Object $Text[$i] -ForegroundColor $Color[$i] -BackgroundColor $BackGroundColor[$i] -NoNewLine } for ($i = $Color.Length; $i -lt $Text.Length; $i++) { Write-Host -Object $Text[$i] -ForegroundColor $DefaultColor -BackgroundColor $BackGroundColor[0] -NoNewLine } } } if ($NoNewLine -eq $true) { Write-Host -NoNewline } else { Write-Host } # Support for no new line if ($LinesAfter -ne 0) { for ($i = 0; $i -lt $LinesAfter; $i++) { Write-Host -Object "`n" } } # Add empty line after if ($LogFile -ne "") { # Save to file $TextToFile = "" for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Text.Length; $i++) { $TextToFile += $Text[$i] } try { if ($LogTime) { Write-Output -InputObject "[$([datetime]::Now.ToString($TimeFormat))]$TextToFile" | Out-File -FilePath $LogFile -Encoding $Encoding -Append } else { Write-Output -InputObject "$TextToFile" | Out-File -FilePath $LogFile -Encoding $Encoding -Append } } catch { $_.Exception } } } Export-ModuleMember -function 'Write-Color' -Alias 'wc' |