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piyush172
piyush172

Reputation: 100

How to run Multiple command in Windows Powershell sequentially like second executes if first is passed?

To execute multiple commands in PowerShell we use ; . But there is a flaw in it it executes all the commands even if one fails in between.

Is there any substitute for && in Windows Powershell ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1878

Answers (1)

Mathias R. Jessen
Mathias R. Jessen

Reputation: 174485

But there is a flaw in it it executes all the commands even if one fails in between.

Try setting the appropriate preference variable - it defaults to Continue in powershell.exe:

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

Some-Command
Some-CommandThatMightFail
Some-OtherCommand

Now, if Some-CommandThatMightFail throws an error, execution of the containing script or function will stop and return to the caller immediately.

See the about_Preference_Variables topic in the documentation on more information about controlling error handling behavior with $ErrorActionPreference

Beware that the $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' assignment only affects the current scope - overwriting it will only affect the error action preference in the script/function/scriptblock where that assignment was executed:

PS C:\> $ErrorActionPreference
Continue
PS C:\> &{ 
  $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
  # preference only changes inside this scriptblock
  $ErrorActionPreference
}
Stop
PS C:\> $ErrorActionPreference # still Continue in parent scope
Continue

Upvotes: 2

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