Command Start-Sleep -milliseconds 50 - powershell

Question

Playing off of someone elses script (i know nothing) is there a way to apply this sleep to a command such as "dir"?
Goal: Display DIR output in typewriter effect.
$string = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
$string -split '' |
ForEach-Object{
Write-Host $_ -nonew
Start-Sleep -milliseconds 50
}

Answer 1

It sounds like you want all the output not just the filepath or names. I offer two versions of the same concept
Multiple foreach loops
Get-ChildItem * | Out-String -Stream | ForEach-Object {
[environment]::NewLine
$_.trimend().tochararray()| ForEach-Object{
Write-Host $_ -NoNewline
Start-Sleep -milliseconds 25
}
}
Using switch statement
Switch (Get-ChildItem * | Out-String -Stream)
{
default {"`n"; $_.trimend().tochararray()|
ForEach-Object{
Write-Host $_ -NoNewline
Start-Sleep -milliseconds 25
}
}
}

Answer 2

Get-Item * | ForEach-Object { Write-Output $_; Start-Sleep -milliseconds 50 }
Implementation with dir (Get-Item in Powershell)
Take each line from the output ($_) wait for 50 milliseconds and print the line.

Answer 3

Modified your script.
This will print out each letter separately.
[string[]]$strings = (Get-ChildItem).FullName
$strings | foreach {
$_ -split '' |
ForEach-Object{
Write-Host $_ -nonew
Start-Sleep -milliseconds 1
}
Write-Host ""
}
Does this answer your question?