Error when calling 3rd party executable from Powershell when using an IDE

Question

I have a PowerShell script that uses du.exe (Disk Usage originally from Sysinternals) to calculate the size of directories.

If I run du c:\\Backup in th

Answer 1

Another way to suppress the NativeCommandError output is to convert the objects in the pipeline to strings as outlined at the bottom of this answer:

du c:\Backup 2>&1 | %{ "$_" }