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• File Page-Output.ps1 — part of check-in [2b5a1b18d0] at 2018-06-10 13:00:55 on branch trunk — This is like a (very simple) “more” script for PowerShell … the problem with it is that you’re paging by a count of objects, not by how many lines of text they’ll output … so the paging doesn’t really work except for format-table output … unless you specify it manually. However, this script provides you with “an option” if you want to have paging and still be able to use a script to color the output based on context or syntax. (user: Joel Bennett size: 2752)

# encoding: ascii
# api: powershell
# title: Page-Output
# description: This is like a (very simple) “more” script for PowerShell … the problem with it is that you’re paging by a count of objects, not by how many lines of text they’ll output … so the paging doesn’t really work except for format-table output … unless you specify it manually.  However, this script provides you with “an option” if you want to have paging and still be able to use a script to color the output based on context or syntax.
# version: 1.1
# type: script
# author: Joel Bennett
# license: CC0
# x-poshcode-id: 175
# x-archived: 2012-12-29T04:47:44
# x-published: 2008-04-15T21:33:00
#
#
## Page (aka More, aka Page-Output)
###################################################################################################
## This is like a (very simple) "more" script for PowerShell ... 
## The problem with it is that you're paging by a count of objects, not by how many lines of text 
## they'll output ... so the paging doesn't really work except for format-table output ... 
## unless you specify it manually.  
##
## However, this script provides you with "an option" if you want to have paging and still be able
## to do something like using a script to color the output based on context or syntax:
## 
## Simple example:
## ls | Page | % { $_ ; switch( $i++ % 2 ) { 0 { $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = "Black" } 1 { $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = "DarkGray" } } }
###################################################################################################
## Revision History
## 1.1 - Clean up output (overwrite the prompt)
##     - Add option to stop paging (and also to abort)
## 1.0 - Demo script
###################################################################################################
# function Page {
Param( [int]$count=($Host.UI.RawUI.WindowSize.Height-5) )
   BEGIN {
      $x  = 1
      $bg = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor;
      $fg = $Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor;
      $page = $true
   }
   PROCESS {
      if($page -and (($x++ % $count) -eq 0)) {
         Write-Host "Press a key to continue (or 'A' for all, or 'Q' to quit)..." -NoNew;
         $Host.UI.RawUI.FlushInputBuffer();
         $ch = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyUp");
         switch -regex ($ch.Character){
            "a|A" { $page = $false }
            "q|Q" { exit }
         }
         $pos = $Host.UI.RawUI.CursorPosition;
         $pos.X = 0;
         $Host.UI.RawUI.CursorPosition = $pos;
      }
      $_
   }
   END {
      # Don't forget to set the colors back...
      $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = $bg;
      $Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = $fg;
   }
#}