How-to send CTRL+Z command in PowerShell

[PaoloS]

Hi all,
Who knows, how-to send CTRL+Z in PowerShell script? I need to send CTRL+Z,
when i'm using serial port. i know only from 1 guy from here how-to send CRLF
(`r`n) but i need to know CTRL+Z.

If somebody knows how-to, i will be very happy.

Thanks. PaoloS

[Marco Shaw [MVP]]

Post by PaoloS
Hi all,
Who knows, how-to send CTRL+Z in PowerShell script? I need to send CTRL+Z,
when i'm using serial port. i know only from 1 guy from here how-to send CRLF
(`r`n) but i need to know CTRL+Z.
If somebody knows how-to, i will be very happy.
Thanks. PaoloS

Calling Wscript should work:
PSH>$wscript=new-object -com wscript.shell
PSH>$wscript.sendkeys("^Z+{ENTER}")

Will that do?

Marco

[Karl Prosser[MVP]]

Post by Marco Shaw [MVP]
PSH>$wscript=new-object -com wscript.shell
PSH>$wscript.sendkeys("^Z+{ENTER}")

woah, overkill

[Bruce Payette [MSFT]]

Ctrl-Z is ASCII value 26 so you can insert this character into a string by
doing:

$stringWithCtrlZ = "Ctrl-Z is $([char] 26)"

-bruce
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Post by PaoloS
Hi all,
Who knows, how-to send CTRL+Z in PowerShell script? I need to send CTRL+Z,
when i'm using serial port. i know only from 1 guy from here how-to send CRLF
(`r`n) but i need to know CTRL+Z.
If somebody knows how-to, i will be very happy.
Thanks. PaoloS