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PSCore: Linux - Clear-Host injects data into function return value

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

Function Get-SomeData {
    Clear-Host
    $somedata="somedata"
    return $somedata
}

$myData = Get-SomeData

$myData[0]     # will clear the screen
$myData[1]     # "somedata"
$myData.Count  # will be 2

Expected behavior

Function should return a single value ("somedata")

Actual behavior

Function returns an array with the Clear-Host command as the first object

Environment data

Verified in:

Name	Value
PSVersion	6.2.0
PSEdition	Core
GitCommitId	6.2.0
OS	Linux 4.15.0-47-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 13 10:44:52 UTC 2019
Platform	Unix
PSCompatibleVersions	1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.1.10032.0 6.2.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion	2.3
SerializationVersion	1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion	3.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:11 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

iSazonovcommented, Oct 2, 2019

@mklement0 Many thanks! I pulled PR with your suggestion.

2reactions

iSazonovcommented, Oct 2, 2019

@mklement0 I see we have some issues with Clear-Host. but I still don’t have the ability to test on Unix-s and can not grab this. (Although we could do RawUI.Clear() step by step).

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