Vista - do not display "ERRORS" when running script without using $erroractionpreference = "SilentlyContinue"

In the scripts which i had, i delibrately search for a *non-existent*
registry in the machine which creates an error. Also i want to run the
script in a command prompt and only display msg via "write-host" instead of
*default error messages* displaying when scripts run.

# open a registry hive that does not exist on a machine
-- example, do something here that generates an error
-- however error *immediately* appear

I do not want error message to display.

I can use $erroractionpreference = "SilentlyContinue" in the first line of
the script. However if i comment out this statement, error message will
definitely appear. Is there a way to NOT TO DISPLAY error msg or CAPTURED
MSG without using the $erroractionpreference = "SilentlyContinue" ?

Do you really want not to know of any error? Granted some of noise is not
liked in some circumstances.

The two parameters you will need to check out are described in the
about_CommonParmaters helpfile. Specifically you will want to set ErrorAction
to SilentlyContinue and I hope ErrorVariable to <some variable that you will
examine later>.

This will give you the ability to select how errors are propogated on a per
call basis. This will override the global setting ErrorActionPreference.


"IT Staff" wrote:

On Feb 26, 7:32*pm, "IT Staff" <jkk...@xxxxxx> wrote:I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you're asking, but if you're
trying to get just that one operation to not display errors, then you
can use the -ea 'SilentlyContinue' switch on the command instead of
editing the preference variable.