How to handle multiple custom "Catch" error messages in Powershell? - powershell

Question

I have 3 commands inside of a Try and I want custom Catch error messages for each of them in case of an error
e.g. If the first will fail then I would like to get the following message: "Error creating a directory!"
If the second will fail then: "Copy items failed"
If the third will fail then: "Content is not created"
How can I apply that?
Try{
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Name "Script" -Path "C:\Temp\" -Force
Copy-Item -Path $FilePath_ps1 -Destination C:\temp\script -Force
Set-Content -Value "test" -Path "C:\Temp\Script\test.txt" -Force
}
Catch{
" what code do I need here?"
}
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

The answer zett42 gave is correct. Here is how you would implement it in your solution:
$errorAction = "STOP"
Try{
$errorMsg = "New-Item failed"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Name "Script" -Path "C:\Temp\" -Force -ErrorAction $errorAction
$errorMsg = "Copy-Item failed"
Copy-Item -Path $FilePath_ps1 -Destination C:\temp\script -Force -ErrorAction $errorAction
$errorMsg = "Set-Content failed"
Set-Content -Value "test" -Path "C:\Temp\Script\test.txt" -Force -ErrorAction $errorAction
}Catch{
$errorMsg + " with error: $_"
}
The output would be for instance:
Copy-Item failed with error: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path'
because it is null.
I have added the ErrorAction to make sure it stops on every error right after the execution.