The six streams

PowerShell has radically changed the way we automate, by not providing us with exit codes like many have grown used to. Instead, PowerShell exclusively uses different streams to convey output, errors, warnings, and more. Mastering those streams enables you to write more powerful and versatile scripts.

Working with the six streams happens to be so common that cmdlets support the so-called common parameters that all cmdlets share. In this recipe, you will be working with streams like Output, Error, Warning, Verbose, Debug and Information.

How to do it...

Install and start PowerShell Core and execute the following steps:

1. Try the following cmdlets and observe the result:

# This command will return both an error...