Just a complementar information about write-output and write-host.
Write-output writes the output to the pipeline (what you should want to do it, since powershell is a object-oriented shell).
Write-host takes all the data 'out'of the the pipeline and dumps to the out-host and, consequentelly, nothing goes to the pipeline. Basically what write-host does is [console]::writeline()
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