Trap, which has been around since PowerShell v.1, is designed to catch errors and works like this:
trap {
Write-Host -foregroundcolor Yellow `
"Something terrible happened: $($_.Exception.Message)" continue
}
Write-Host -foregroundcolor Yellow `
"Something terrible happened: $($_.Exception.Message)" continue
}
& {
dir nonexistent: -ErrorAction Stop
# any additional lines in this scope will be ignored
"Hello"
}
"I am back!"
Try/Catch is new in PowerShell v.2 and does not work as a general error handler in a given scope. Instead, you can use it to wrap statements you know could fail:
try {
dir nonexistent: -errorAction Stop
}
catch {
"Something strange occurred: $_"
}
dir nonexistent: -errorAction Stop
}
catch {
"Something strange occurred: $_"
}
