Is it possible to check if -Verbose argument was given in Powershell?

Question

I have written my own Powershell logging function Log with parameters stream (on which stream to write the message) and message (the messa

Answer 1

More generally: since one might specify -Verbose:$false on the command line, the following code handles that case. It also works for any other switch parameter:

$Verbose = $false
if ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Verbose')) { # Command line specifies -Verbose[:$false]
    $Verbose = $PsBoundParameters.Get_Item('Verbose')
}