Try/Catch and ErrorAction
Hi there, Following some comments on our scorecard in the Scripting Games I’m not sure I understand how Try/Catch is applied in PowerShell. I thought any error a cmdlet generates would be caught and...
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Try/Catch will only intercept Terminating errors. Most errors from cmdlets are Non-Terminating, so if you want to handle them with Try/Catch, you need to set ErrorAction (or $ErrorActionPreference) to...
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Thanks for that. Considering your point about killing the pipe and forcing the Stop value, do you have any suggestions on when to use Try/Catch?
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Mainly when you’re running a command against a single input object, instead of passing in multiples (via the pipeline or an array). In that case, there’s no point in having any distinction between a...
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Dunno, I guess they wanted the configuration to be loaded from a file or something. We got dinged for that too.
View ArticleIs Desired State Configuration designed for the masses? How about scalability?
Hello! In the last time I have played heavily with Desired State Configuration. So there comes up some questions. The first Question is: How about scalability? Is Desired State Configuration designed...
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Johan Akerstrom wrote o Facebook: 1. Use DSC with DFS or NLB for the DSC WebService 2. DSC has nested configurations. Use them. How you categorize your configurations with exceptions is your...
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One thing to remember is that DSC is very much a 1.0 product. By that I mean that its the initial release. I expect future releases to build and expand on what we have now. In terms of scalability I...
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How are the scores on the Leaderboard being worked out? Is it supposed to be the average score over all of the events, or the average score of the events that the team entered? It looks like Aliens...
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That’s a good point; I hadn’t noticed that. Before the judging of event 4 is complete, that should be fixed (or the final scores will be screwy.) Teams’ scores for each individual event should be...
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At the moment, it’s an average of all scores across all events. Right now, all teams have (or will have) 2 sets of scores per event. However, the leaderboard is not assigning a zero to teams that...
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I’ve updated the code. I want to keep looking at it as the final event 4 scores roll in this week. Right now, it is taking your cumulative score across all events and dividing by 8, which is the...
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Hi Richard thank you for your Answer! Realy apreciate it! Yes I know it is a V.1.0 Product I discuss here me thougts before I make suggestion on MS Connect and perhaps the PowerShell Team read along...
View ArticleError Handling Discussion
Ed offers this example of using $ErrorActionPreference: Try { $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" Copy-Item -Path $myfile -Destination $folder -Force } CATCH [System.Exception]{ MD $folder | Out-Null...
View ArticleVariable in the file’s name filter.
Hello! I am new to PowerShell scripting your help will be really appreciated! The following works for me by running it as .ps1 script: $source=”C:\Backup\Full\” Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse -filter...
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well, you’ve put “sclient” into the second example, whereas the first used “client”. But, you don’t need to concatenate: Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse -filter “aaa_bbb_$($client)_FULL.txt” Ought to...
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Try Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse -filter “aaa_bbb_$client_FULL.txt” or Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse -filter (“aaa_bbb_” + $client + “_FULL.txt”) Filter expects a single string to define the filter...
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Thank you so much for your help!!!! It worked. PS Sorry for typo
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I wasn’t a judge on that event, but in general don’t take it as “you did something wrong.” A lot of the entries were VERY CLOSE, and so at some point judges have to get down to nitpicky style-related...
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The following worked!!! Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse -filter “aaa_bbb_$($client)_FULL.txt”
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