Error checking in PowerShell
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I recently thought I ought to lift my scripting game and introduce some error checking into my PowerShell scripts. After a quick google I found this excellent article from the Scripting Guys. In essence, we set: $error.clear() $erroractionpreference = "SilentlyContinue" And then use, the following statement to test whether the last command was successful: if [...]
Windows Script 5.7 Released!
Friday, August 10th, 2007I didn’t see this one coming. Microsoft have released 5.7 of Windows Script. This provides an update for: Microsoft® Windows® Script containing Visual Basic® Script Edition (VBScript.) Version 5.7, JScript® Version 5.7, Windows Script Components, Windows Script Host 5.7, and Windows Script Runtime Version 5.7. Get your downloads here: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server [...]
Utilising CMD behaviour in PowerShell
Thursday, May 24th, 2007A couple of days ago Jeffrey Snover posted this article on the Windows PowerShell Team blog. I had noted this behaviour previously and just put it down to a quirk of PowerShell. So I’ve been musing over what I miss from the CMD that I’d like available in PoSh. To help jog my memory I [...]
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