Using the trap Statement in Powershell

Patrick Gruenauer plays his trap card:

In PowerShell, error handling is a crucial aspect of writing robust and reliable scripts. One of the powerful features to manage errors gracefully is the trap statement. The trap statement allows you to define a block of code that runs whenever a terminating error occurs in your script. This can be particularly useful for logging errors, cleaning up resources. Let’s dive in.

Read on to see how it works. My preference would be to use try/catch blocks instead of trap statements, but it is interesting to see it there.