This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Out-Host', in PowerShell version 3 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Sends output to the command line.
Out-Host [-InputObject <PSObject>] [-Paging] [<CommonParameters>]
The Out-Host cmdlet sends output to the Windows PowerShell host for display. The host displays the output at the command line. Because
Out-Host is the default, you do not need to specify it unless you want to use its parameters to change the display.
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Clear-Host
Out-Default
Out-File
Out-Null
Out-Printer
Out-String
Write-Host
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PS C:\>Get-Process | Out-Host -Paging
This command displays the processes on the system one page at a time. It uses the Get-Process cmdlet to get the processes on the system. The
pipeline operator (|) sends the results to Out-Host, which displays them at the console. The Paging parameter displays one page of data at a
time.
The same command format is used for the Help function that is built into Windows PowerShell. That function gets data from the Get-Help cmdlet
and then uses the Paging parameter of Out-Host to display the data one page at a time by using this command format: Get-Help $Args[0] |
Out-Host -Paging.
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PS C:\>$a = Get-History
PS C:\>Out-Host -InputObject $a
These commands display the session history at the command line. The first command uses the Get-History cmdlet to get the session history, and
then it stores the history in the $a variable. The second command uses Out-Host to display the content of the $a variable, and it uses the
InputObject parameter to specify the variable to Out-Host.