Making Progress

In a recent article, I showed a sample function to illustrate a point. Part of the function used the Write-Progress cmdlet. This wasn't the point of the example so I didn't make much of it. However, I think this is an under-utilized command and one you should be using more often, especially in long-running scripts or functions. In the past, many of use, myself included, have used simple Write-Host commands to show progress.

Write-Host "Processing file 1 of 10" -ForegroundColor yellow

If you use Write-Host this way, I encourage you to use a foreground color to distinguish it from command output.