Suppose I have a variable initialized like

$abc = kapil

then what is the difference between

write-host $abc



and

directly writing $abc on console

directly write to the console is the same as out-host.

write-host does a tostring() on the objects for displaying forcing the
object to string format, but can be used for collored output.
but we aware that write-host sometimes can give a other output as expected :

some samples that might help.

PS C:\Users\mvanorsouw> $a = 1,2,3
PS C:\Users\mvanorsouw> write-host $a
1 2 3
PS C:\Users\mvanorsouw> out-host $a
Out-Host : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument
'System.Object[]'.
At line:1 char:9
+ out-host <<<< $a
PS C:\Users\mvanorsouw> out-host -InputObject $a
1
2
3
PS C:\Users\mvanorsouw> $a | write-host -ForegroundColor yellow
1
2
3

(I wonder whether I can cal the error a bug)


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> Suppose I have a variable initialized like
>
> $abc = kapil
>
> then what is the difference between
>
> write-host $abc
>
> and
>
> directly writing $abc on console