Get List Of Strings As Input And Pause For Each Output

The aim of this explainer💡 is to delineate a pattern useful for ops when checking logs/jobs with switches for various usecases. In an example I am querying list of keys HashiCorp Consul for their UUIDs or for a particularities of a job they run.

1. steps/notes

function get-foos {
    param (
        [string[]]$idList, 
        [switch]$a, 
        [switch]$b,
        [switch]$c
    )
 
 foreach ($idItem in $idList) {
     #CODE WITH CASE ANALYSIS / SWITCHING
 
 Pause
 }
 
}

2. example

function query-consul () {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        [string[]]$pipelines, 
        [string]$queryString, 
        [switch]$uuid,
        [switch]$rdb

    )
    
    foreach ($pipeline in $pipelines) {
        $consulName = $pipeline -replace "-.*"
        $consulName = $consulName -replace "\.", "_"
        if ($uuid) {get-uuid($consulName)}
        elseif ($rdb) {get-rdbInfo($consulName)}
        else {
            consul kv get -recurse customer/$consulName |
                Select-String $queryString 
            Pause
        }
    }
}