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Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches
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Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches

by Jeffery Hicks, Don Jones
December 2017
Beginner
352 pages
10h 31m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 15. Dealing with errors

You have a lot of functionality yet to write in the tool you’ve been building, and we’ve been deferring a lot of it to this point. In this chapter, we’ll focus on how to capture, deal with, log, and otherwise handle errors the tool may encounter.

Note

PowerShell.org offers a free eBook, The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling, which dives into this topic from a more technical reference perspective (https://powershell.org/ebooks). We recommend checking it out, once you’ve completed this tutorial-focused chapter.

15.1. Understanding errors and exceptions

PowerShell defines two broad types of bad situation: an error and an exception. Because most PowerShell commands are designed to deal with ...

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