PowerShell "echo on"

powershell command echo
Nelson Rothermel picture Nelson Rothermel · Jan 14, 2010 · Viewed 30.8k times · Source

This is a duplicate of https://serverfault.com/questions/102098/powershell-script-showing-commands-run. I thought it would be more appropriate to ask this question here.

I am playing around with PowerShell scripts and they're working great. However, I am wondering if there is any way to also show all the commands that were run, just as if you were manually typing them in yourself. This would be similar to "echo on" in batch files. I looked at the PowerShell command-line arguments, the cmdlets, but I didn't find anything obvious.

Answer

wisbucky picture wisbucky · Apr 4, 2018 
Set-PSDebug -Trace 1
  • 0: Turn script tracing off.
  • 1: Trace script lines as they run.
  • 2: Trace script lines, variable assignments, function calls, and scripts.

For more info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/set-psdebug?view=powershell-6

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