{"id":5075,"date":"2012-08-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/26\/powertip-check-to-see-if-a-command-completes-properly\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-check-to-see-if-a-command-completes-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-check-to-see-if-a-command-completes-properly\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Check to See if a Command Completes Properly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>:  Learn how to check for proper completion of a Windows PowerShell command.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I tell if a Windows PowerShell command completes successfully?<\/p>\n

               <\/p>\n

 \"Hey,<\/p>\n

a.<\/strong> Query the $error<\/b> automatic variable. If $error[0]<\/b> reports no information, no errors have occurred.<\/p>\n

b.<\/strong> Query the $?<\/b> <\/i>automatic variable. If $?<\/b> is equal to true, the command completed successfully.<\/p>\n

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

Summary:  Learn how to check for proper completion of a Windows PowerShell command.  How can I tell if a Windows PowerShell command completes successfully?                   a. Query the $error automatic variable. If $error[0] reports no information, no errors have occurred. b. Query the $? automatic variable. If $? is equal to true, the command completed successfully.<\/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-5075","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":"

Summary:  Learn how to check for proper completion of a Windows PowerShell command.  How can I tell if a Windows PowerShell command completes successfully?                   a. Query the $error automatic variable. If $error[0] reports no information, no errors have occurred. b. Query the $? automatic variable. If $? is equal to true, the command completed successfully.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","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=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/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=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}