The Issue

Most of the time, when using scripting in Powershell, you have your file path export for example to say "$env:Temp\config1.yaml" and you’ll have that dance with the terminal of trying to copy the text, it sometimes copying and sometimes not… Maybe its just me. So I though this MUST be possible right. Its just a time and resource query.

So I took to the interwebs and started searching as you do, Checking out Stack Overview, GitHub, and some All knowing AI (ChatGPT). During my investigation I found some interesting links from StackOverflow which made it look like it might be possible:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15581012/how-to-render-clickable-link-using-powershell
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36293078/clickable-hyperlink-on-powershells-console-output#:~:text=Clickable%20links,%20when%20referring%20to%20the

The Solution

The second Stack Overflow Post, Found the answer that I needed using escape characters in PowerShell. If you want to read more about the `e character, You can check out the Microsoft Docs page Here

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$url = "https://blog.builtwithcaffeine.cloud"
$name = "BuiltWithCaffeine :: Blog"
Write-Output "`e]8;;$url`e\$name`e]8;;`e\"

If you wanted to add some colour to your links:

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$url = "https://blog.builtwithcaffeine.cloud"
$name = "BuiltWithCaffeine :: Blog"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor 'Magenta' "`e]8;;$url`e\$name`e]8;;`e\"

Write-Host Examples

Magenta

White

Yellow