Terminating a script in PowerShell

Question

I\'ve been looking for a way to terminate a PowerShell (PS1) script when an unrecoverable error occurs within a function. For example:

function foo() {
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Answer 1

Write-Error is for non-terminating errors and throw is for terminating errors

The Write-Error cmdlet declares a non-terminating error. By default, errors are sent in the error stream to the host program to be displayed, along with output.

Non-terminating errors write an error to the error stream, but they do not stop command processing. If a non-terminating error is declared on one item in a collection of input items, the command continues to process the other items in the collection.

To declare a terminating error, use the Throw keyword. For more information, see about_Throw (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=145153).