Would you like to learn how to prompt for user input using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to request input to your Powershell scripts on a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7
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Tutorial Powershell – Prompting for User Input
Start a Powershell command-line.
Request a user input using Powershell.
Display the user input using Powershell.
In our example, the user input was stored in a variable named NAME.
Congratulations! You are able to request user input using Powershell.
Tutorial Powershell – Prompting for User input using a function
Start a Powershell command-line.
Create a function to request the user input.
In our example, we created a function named REQUESTNAME to request the user input.
Call the function using Powershell.
Here is the command output.
Congratulations! You are able to prompt a user for input using a Powershell function.
Tutorial Powershell – Prompting for User password
Start a Powershell command-line.
Request a user input using Powershell.
Display the user input using Powershell.
In our example, the username was stored in a variable named MYUSERNAME.
In our example, the password was stored in a variable named MYPASS.
Congratulations! You are able to request passwords as input using Powershell.
