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I'm running a PowerShell script, which, call another script by itself. In the first script, when I put echo, everything is OK, but I can't get any echo in the second ("client") script to show anything.

How can I get echo work?

I'm using PowerShell 2.0 on Windows 7 Pro, with PowerGUI. (I also tried with ISE, but it does not help)

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You should use Write-Host directly insted of echo (witch is alias for Write-Output).

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It seems to be working now, but another problem: I want to print full properties of the object, but Write-Host only print their type. How can I fix that?
you should never use Write-Host to return or output something in a script. It is a best practice to always use Write-Output
ravikanth If the SO wants to write to the console, but not the pipeline then using write-host is the correct thing to do. The question doesn't make this distinction clear.
artem Write-Host is not an alias for Write-Output AFAIK it works differently in that it outputs to the console only, rather than to the script "output" pipeline.
@chibacity, see the first comment. He wants to print all properties. That can be done either using Format-List * or using Write-Output. I agree on the pipeline part of your response.
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A sample of your script would help in giving an accurate answer. That said, I tried Write-Output from nested scripts and everything seems to working for me.

#Script1.ps1
Write-Output "Script 1"
Write-Output "Calling Script 2"
./Script2.ps1

#Script2.ps1
Write-Output "Script 2"
Write-Output "Script 2 End"

And, the output:

PS> .\Script-one.ps1
Script 1
Calling Script 2
Script 2
Script 2 End
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Seems like @Vimvq1987 calls that script indirectly. i.e. using powershell.exe
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You can use Write-Host to write to the console ( host)

There seems to be some confusion on using Write-Output vs Write-Host (echo is alias for Write-Output - you can see it from Get-Alias ). Write-Output is not just writing to console. From the docs:

Sends the specified objects to the next command in the pipeline. If the command is the last command in the pipeline, the objects are displayed in the console.

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That's not what Artem was saying. He was saying that echo is an alias of write-output.

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