{"id":1030,"date":"2014-07-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/09\/powertip-find-information-about-erroractionpreference\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-information-about-erroractionpreference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-information-about-erroractionpreference\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Information About ErrorActionPreference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Find information, beyond the basics, for the Windows PowerShell variable&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">ErrorActionPreference<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see information, beyond only the value, for the variable&nbsp;<b>ErrorActionPreference<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Variable<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Format-List<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Variable ErrorActionPreference | Format-List *<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;When you use the&nbsp;<b>*variable<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlets, you do not specify the initial dollar sign. <br \/>So it is represented as&nbsp;<b>ErrorActionPreference<\/b>&nbsp;not&nbsp;<b>$ErrorActionPreference<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Find information, beyond the basics, for the Windows PowerShell variable&nbsp;ErrorActionPreference. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see information, beyond only the value, for the variable&nbsp;ErrorActionPreference? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Variable&nbsp;cmdlet and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Format-List&nbsp;cmdlet: Get-Variable ErrorActionPreference | Format-List * Note&nbsp;&nbsp;When you use the&nbsp;*variable&nbsp;cmdlets, you do not specify the initial dollar sign. So it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Find information, beyond the basics, for the Windows PowerShell variable&nbsp;ErrorActionPreference. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see information, beyond only the value, for the variable&nbsp;ErrorActionPreference? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Variable&nbsp;cmdlet and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Format-List&nbsp;cmdlet: Get-Variable ErrorActionPreference | Format-List * Note&nbsp;&nbsp;When you use the&nbsp;*variable&nbsp;cmdlets, you do not specify the initial dollar sign. So it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}