{"id":1050,"date":"2014-07-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/05\/powertip-examine-the-most-recent-powershell-error\/"},"modified":"2014-07-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-examine-the-most-recent-powershell-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-examine-the-most-recent-powershell-error\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Examine the Most Recent PowerShell Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to examine the most recent error in Windows PowerShell.<\/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;My Windows PowerShell command failed with an error. How can I look at the error record?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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>$error<\/b>&nbsp;automatic variable to it displays the last error. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; You can see more details by piping it to the&nbsp;<b>Format-List<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and using&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Force<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$error | Format-List * -Force<\/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: Learn how to examine the most recent error in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;My Windows PowerShell command failed with an error. How can I look at the error record? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$error&nbsp;automatic variable to it displays the last error. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; You can see more details by piping it to the&nbsp;Format-List&nbsp;cmdlet and using&nbsp;&ndash;Force: $error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to examine the most recent error in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;My Windows PowerShell command failed with an error. How can I look at the error record? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$error&nbsp;automatic variable to it displays the last error. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; You can see more details by piping it to the&nbsp;Format-List&nbsp;cmdlet and using&nbsp;&ndash;Force: $error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/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=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}