As a note here.. I have a blog series on Error handling.
http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=51
$erroractionpreference/$error may not have effect on "native" commands.
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M> Joey wrote:
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>> How do I get the verbose messages/errors displayed by native command
>> calls back into a variable inside of powershell or at least to show
>> up in the output? At the moment the closest thing I can find is the
>> $lastexitcode variable which is good for determining if an error
>> occurred but doesn't help in ascertaining the exact error message of
>> a native command. The $error object contains nothing when a native
>> command fails. I want to convert my processes over to powershell but
>> without the ability to display exact error messages from native
>> commands the benefits will not outweigh the hassles of trying to
>> debug the scripts because the errors are not shown!
>>
M> This should help:
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http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...oraction-and-e
M> rrorvariable.aspx
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