{"id":1984,"date":"2014-02-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/18\/powertip-find-information-about-powershell-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-information-about-powershell-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-information-about-powershell-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Information about PowerShell Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>:  Use Windows PowerShell to find information about Windows PowerShell errors.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I find more information about a specific error when I look at the $error<\/b> automatic variable?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, The $error<\/b> automatic variable contain rich objects. For example, the InvocationInfo<\/b> property shows
          what code was called that generated the error.
          The following illustrates how to find the most recent error (error 0):<\/p>\n

$Error[0].InvocationInfo<\/p>\n

Note<\/b>  Tab expansion works for this.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary:  Use Windows PowerShell to find information about Windows PowerShell errors.  How can I find more information about a specific error when I look at the $error automatic variable?  The $error automatic variable contain rich objects. For example, the InvocationInfo property shows           what code was called that generated the error.           The […]<\/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-1984","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":"

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