How to stop a PowerShell script on the first error?

Question

I want my PowerShell script to stop when any of the commands I run fail (like set -e in bash). I\'m using both Powershell commands (New-Object System.Net.

Answer 1

I came here looking for the same thing. $ErrorActionPreference="Stop" kills my shell immediately when I'd rather see the error message (pause) before it terminates. Falling back on my batch sensibilities:

IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 pause & GOTO EOF

I found that this works pretty much the same for my particular ps1 script:

Import-PSSession $Session
If ($? -ne "True") {Pause; Exit}