How to output something in PowerShell

Question

I am running a PowerShell script from within a batch file. The script fetches a web page and checks whether the page\'s content is the string \"OK\".

The PowerShell

Answer 1

I think the following is a good exhibit of Echo vs. Write-Host. Notice how test() actually returns an array of ints, not a single int as one could easily be led to believe.

function test {
    Write-Host 123
    echo 456 # AKA 'Write-Output'
    return 789
}

$x = test

Write-Host "x of type '$($x.GetType().name)' = $x"

Write-Host "`$x[0] = $($x[0])"
Write-Host "`$x[1] = $($x[1])"

Terminal output of the above:

123
x of type 'Object[]' = 456 789
$x[0] = 456
$x[1] = 789