Vista - Powershell, Process and StandardError

Hi guys,
I have a funny situation here and I hope you might help me.
We've written general purpose tool that executes PS scripts using
System.Diagnostics.Process class and based if there is somethign in
Process.StandardError decides if the script was executed successfuly.

So far so good... we have also PS script that performs Oracle backup using
it's external exp command and this is where is the problem. It seems exp
writes output in StandardOutput AND in StandardError streams. I tried to
redirect output to file but it redirects only StandardOutput text and Error
text stays...
thus we get always failure detected in our code...

Is trere a way to clear Process.StandardError within PS script?

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance
Galin Iliev [MCT, MCDP]

Did you try redirecting StdErr to StrOut 2>&1
You can also try $error.clear() at the end of you script to see if that
helps.

"Galin Iliev[Galcho]" <Galin Iliev[Galcho]@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:37405B38-0BBD-479B-BDDC-6F0EBB9F5CA0@microsoft.com...
> Hi guys,
> I have a funny situation here and I hope you might help me.
> We've written general purpose tool that executes PS scripts using
> System.Diagnostics.Process class and based if there is somethign in
> Process.StandardError decides if the script was executed successfuly.
>
> So far so good... we have also PS script that performs Oracle backup using
> it's external exp command and this is where is the problem. It seems exp
> writes output in StandardOutput AND in StandardError streams. I tried to
> redirect output to file but it redirects only StandardOutput text and
> Error
> text stays...
> thus we get always failure detected in our code...
>
> Is trere a way to clear Process.StandardError within PS script?
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Galin Iliev [MCT, MCDP]

Thank you Brandon!
This is what I looked for

Many Thanks

Galin Ilieb

"Brandon Shell" wrote:

> Did you try redirecting StdErr to StrOut 2>&1
> You can also try $error.clear() at the end of you script to see if that
> helps.
>
> "Galin Iliev[Galcho]" <Galin Iliev[Galcho]@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:37405B38-0BBD-479B-BDDC-6F0EBB9F5CA0@microsoft.com...
> > Hi guys,
> > I have a funny situation here and I hope you might help me.
> > We've written general purpose tool that executes PS scripts using
> > System.Diagnostics.Process class and based if there is somethign in
> > Process.StandardError decides if the script was executed successfuly.
> >
> > So far so good... we have also PS script that performs Oracle backup using
> > it's external exp command and this is where is the problem. It seems exp
> > writes output in StandardOutput AND in StandardError streams. I tried to
> > redirect output to file but it redirects only StandardOutput text and
> > Error
> > text stays...
> > thus we get always failure detected in our code...
> >
> > Is trere a way to clear Process.StandardError within PS script?
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Galin Iliev [MCT, MCDP]
>
>