Unwrapping STDERR in Powershell
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<# | |
.Synopsis | |
STDERR strings get wrapped in an ErrorRecord. Unwrap those back into strings. | |
#> | |
function Convert-StderrString { | |
# Why can this not be an advanced function with [CmdletBinding()] ? | |
# Somehow it doesn't work if I put that in. | |
begin { | |
} | |
process { | |
if ($PSItem -is [System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]) { | |
# yeah OK I haven't figured out how to say 'and' yet | |
if ($PSItem.FullyQualifiedErrorId -eq "NativeCommandError") { | |
if ($PSItem.TargetObject -is [string]) { | |
$PSItem.TargetObject | |
return; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
$PSItem | |
} | |
end { | |
} | |
} | |
Set-Alias -Name fix-stderr -Value Convert-StderrString |
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