Question

Cost of a 'special meal' is $79.99. Use Write-Host to print the statement below:

Every 'special meal' will cost you $79.99
Note: Your answer should print the output exactly as shown above.

Answer 1

To display the desired message in PowerShell, use the Write-Host command with the text inside quotes.

Step-by-step explanation:

To print a statement that says Every 'special meal' will cost you $79.99 using the Write-Host command in PowerShell, you will write the following script:

Write-Host "Every 'special meal' will cost you $79.99"
This command simply outputs the specified text to the console. Remember that when using Write-Host, the text to be displayed must be enclosed in quotes, and if you want to include quotes within your text, they must be escaped with a backtick (`) or held within single quotes to be interpreted literally.

Write-Host uses the ToString() method to write the output. By contrast, to output data to the pipeline, use Write-Output or implicit output. You can specify the color of text by using the ForegroundColor parameter, and you can specify the background color by using the BackgroundColor parameter.

The advantage of Write-Output is that the text can be piped to the "stream" or "pipeline" and used by a cmdlet further in the pipeline. Maybe even passed to another script. Thats the big difference there - -Host is for humans, -Output is for the powershell host. There is no right or wrong cmdlet.