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According to Microsoft s documentation  read-host lets the user type some input  and then press enter to continue  Not exactly the correct behavior if you want to have  Press any key to continue    Wait    where s the Any key     Is there a way to accomplish this  Something like read-char   I ve tried searching for  single character input  and  powershell input  to see if I could find a list of all ways to get input without much luck  And several Stack Overflow questions that looked hopeful use read-host which doesn t actually work for  press any key     functionality

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I ve created a little Powershell function to emulate MSDOS pause   This handles whether running Powershell ISE or non ISE    ReadKey does not work in powershell ISE    When running Powershell ISE  this function opens a Windows MessageBox   This can sometimes be confusing  because the MessageBox does not always come to the forefront   Anyway  here it goes   Usage  pause  Press any key to continue   Function definition   Function pause   message          Check if running Powershell ISE     if   psISE                Add-Type -AssemblyName System Windows Forms          System Windows Forms MessageBox   Show   message             else               Write-Host   message  -ForegroundColor Yellow          x    host ui RawUI ReadKey  NoEcho IncludeKeyDown

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Check out the ReadKey   method on the System Console  NET class  I think that will do what you re looking for   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system console readkey v vs 110  aspx  Example    Write-Host -Object   The key that was pressed was   0   -f  System Console   ReadKey   Key ToString

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Here is what I use   Write-Host -NoNewLine  Press any key to continue       null    Host UI RawUI ReadKey  NoEcho IncludeKeyDown

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