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

Question

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 ?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '20 at 15:23

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

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

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