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Oleg Kazanskyi
Oleg Kazanskyi

Reputation: 306

Powershell "'get-error' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

Get-Error should be one of the basic PS commands, but it doesn't work for me. I get an error:

get-error : The term 'get-error' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I updated the module Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility. I've checked the list of commands in it with:

Get-Command -Module Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility

And it is still not there.

Does anyone know how to fix it or how to get detailed error info without it?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6513

Answers (1)

Jeff Zeitlin
Jeff Zeitlin

Reputation: 10799

Powershell errors are objects, just like everything else. As such, you can interrogate their properties and invoke their methods. They’re documented on MSDocs as System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord.

When I forced an error, and looked at the object with Get-Member, I saw

PS D:\Scripts> $error[0] | Get-Member


   TypeName: System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord

Name                  MemberType     Definition
----                  ----------     ----------
Equals                Method         bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetHashCode           Method         int GetHashCode()
GetObjectData         Method         void GetObjectData(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info, System....
GetType               Method         type GetType()
ToString              Method         string ToString()
CategoryInfo          Property       System.Management.Automation.ErrorCategoryInfo CategoryInfo {get;}
ErrorDetails          Property       System.Management.Automation.ErrorDetails ErrorDetails {get;set;}
Exception             Property       System.Exception Exception {get;}
FullyQualifiedErrorId Property       string FullyQualifiedErrorId {get;}
InvocationInfo        Property       System.Management.Automation.InvocationInfo InvocationInfo {get;}
PipelineIterationInfo Property       System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection[int] PipelineIterationInfo {g...
ScriptStackTrace      Property       string ScriptStackTrace {get;}
TargetObject          Property       System.Object TargetObject {get;}
PSMessageDetails      ScriptProperty System.Object PSMessageDetails {get=& { Set-StrictMode -Version 1; $this.Except...


PS D:\Scripts>

but using the MSDocs will give you more useful information.

Upvotes: 1

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