msgBox / Alert with Powershell on MacOs

Question

I know how to make a VBS msgBox on windows

message = ("HELLO",0,"Title")

But I want to do this on Mac with Powershell

Thank you for you answers :D

I assume you are running Powershell Core on your mac? I don't think the backend .NET Core has any message-boxes, you may have to call a mac-specific utility. — colsw, Jan 30 '18 at 17:56
@user9222646: As an aside: your VBS example doesn't look like VBS. — mklement0, Jan 30 '18 at 18:36

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '18 at 18:25

On macOS, you can call AppleScript's display alert statement, via the osascript CLI.

A simple example, with just an "OK" button:

$null = 'display alert "a title" message "a message"' | osascript

A more complex example with "OK" and "Cancel" buttons and storing the name of the button clicked in a variable:

$btnPressed = (('display alert "a title" message "a message" buttons ¬
                  { "OK", "Cancel" }' | osascript -s s) -split '"')[1]

Anatoli Yefimov · Answer 2 · 2020-06-24T15:50:33.940

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You can even add a variable...

$Text = "Test this variable"

$null = "display alert "$Text"" | osascript

edited Jun 24 '20 at 15:50

answered Jun 24 '20 at 15:34

Anatoli Yefimov

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there should be a ` preceding the two double quotes around $Text – Anatoli Yefimov Jun 24 '20 at 15:53

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