Powershell Catch Exception

Question

I'm trying this to catch an exception but it just doesn't work rather just shows me error in the script editor I'm running the script from:-

Path I mentioned in the script "\server\abc" doesn't really exist, so it should catch it as an exception which it is not. HELP HELP

Try
{

Get-ChildItem -Path "\\server\abc"

}
Catch
{

 Write-Host "error"

}

JNK · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-27 15:54:06Z

8

You need to set the erroraction to STOP for the error to be terminating - only terminating errors are raised to a catch block.

Try
{

Get-ChildItem -Path "\\server\abc" -ErrorAction Stop

}
Catch
{

 Write-Host "error"

}

answered Jun 27, 2013 at 15:54

JNK

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use $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" more ref: blogs.msdn.com/b/kebab/archive/2013/06/09/…