{"id":6401,"date":"2008-04-09T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2008\/04\/09\/erroraction-update\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:04","slug":"erroraction-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/erroraction-update\/","title":{"rendered":"-ErrorAction update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to  my blog entry on -ErrorAction HERE<\/a>,  Jon Newman reminded me that the reason we didn’t use the term IGNORE for -ErrorAction was that we don’t really ignore the error.  We still record it in $ERROR.<\/p>\n

He also reminded me that I should have talked about $ErrorActionPreference.  This variable defines the action that will occur if the user does NOT specify what to do on the commandline.  Check it out:<\/p>\n

PS>$ErrorActionPreference<\/strong>
Continue
PS>Stop-Process 13,23
<\/strong>Stop-Process : Cannot find a process with the process identifier 13.
At line:1 char:13
+ Stop-Process <<<<  13,23
Stop-Process : Cannot find a process with the process identifier 23.
At line:1 char:13
+ Stop-Process <<<<  13,23
<\/font>PS>$ErrorActionPreference ="SilentlyContinue"<\/strong>
PS>Stop-Process 13,23<\/strong>
PS>$ErrorActionPreference ="Stop"<\/strong>
PS>Stop-Process 13,23
<\/strong>Stop-Process : Command execution stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter i
set to Stop: Cannot find a process with the process identifier 13.
At line:1 char:13
+ Stop-Process <<<<  13,23
<\/font>PS>$ErrorActionPreference ="Inquire"<\/strong>
PS>Stop-Process 13,23<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

Confirm
Cannot find a process with the process identifier 13.
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [H] Halt Command  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): h
Stop-Process : Command execution stopped because the user selected the Halt option.
At line:1 char:13
+ Stop-Process <<<<  13,23<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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