Merging hashtables in PowerShell: how?

Question

I am trying to merge two hashtables, overwriting key-value pairs in the first if the same key exists in the second.

To do this I wrote this function which first remo

Answer 1

The open brace has to be on the same line as ForEach-Object or you have to use the line continuation character (backtick).

This is the case because the code within { ... } is really the value for the -Process parameter of ForEach-Object cmdlet.

-Process  
Specifies the script block that is applied to each incoming object.

This will get you past the current issue at hand.