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Bogdan Calmac
Bogdan Calmac

Reputation: 8283

How to exit powershell from a sourced script?

Consider "outer.ps1":

"in outer.ps1"
. .\inner.ps1
"in outer.ps1 after sourcing inner.ps1"

that sources "inner.ps1" which just exits:

exit 0

When I run "outer.ps1" the output indicates that the exit only returns from "inner.ps1":

in outer.ps1
in outer.ps1 after sourcing inner.ps1

Is it possible to exit the powershell process from inner.ps1? I don't want to throw an exception, this would be a normal termination.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 996

Answers (1)

Keith Hill
Keith Hill

Reputation: 202002

You can use this instead:

[Environment]::Exit(0)

But be warned - it will exit the PowerShell console completely. That's a pretty big hammer. :-)

A better way is to use a trap handler in outer.ps1 e.g.:

trap { exit 0 }

And in inner.ps1 do a throw e.g.:

throw "Inner.ps1 done!"

Upvotes: 8

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