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What is use of $error variable in PowerShell?
Error variable in PowerShell is to view the errors generated in the current PowerShell session. We can say that the $Error variable is the container that stores all the errors and the latest error will be displayed first. For the example below, we will set the $Errorview to Category view to minimizing the error display content. By default $ErrorView is a Normal view.
$ErrorView = "Categoryview"
Now we will see the $error variable example,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> asdds ObjectNotFound: (asdds:String) [], CommandNotFoundException PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-process asddsd ObjectNotFound: (asddsd:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException
Here, there is one wrong command and one wrong input we have written so let see what $error variable contains.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error ObjectNotFound: (asddsd:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException ObjectNotFound: (asdds:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
In the above output, the last error will be displayed first, and so on. $Errorvariable has become an array now. You can get the individual output as an array typical method.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error[0] ObjectNotFound: (asddsd:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error[1] ObjectNotFound: (asdds:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
To get the count of errors generated,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error.Count 2
To check the error capacity, you can run the below command.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error.Capacity 4
When the capacity of storing error reaches 4, again this variable automatically increases its capacity by 4, so the total capacity becomes 8. So every time the error variable reaches its capacity, it increases the capacity by 4.
For example,
We already created 4 errors here,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error ObjectNotFound: (221dsd:String) [], CommandNotFoundException ObjectNotFound: (7sdse:String) [], CommandNotFoundException ObjectNotFound: (asddsd:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException ObjectNotFound: (asdds:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
When you add one more error count,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> 5look ObjectNotFound: (5look:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
Now check the capacity,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error.Capacity 8
And the output,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $error ObjectNotFound: (5look:String) [], CommandNotFoundException ObjectNotFound: (221dsd:String) [], CommandNotFoundException ObjectNotFound: (7sdse:String) [], CommandNotFoundException ObjectNotFound: (asddsd:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException ObjectNotFound: (asdds:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
So question is, what is the threshold for this error variable capacity? To check it, you need to use the command $MaximumErrorCount.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $MaximumErrorCount 256
Here, the limit of the maximum error count is 256.
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