Returning an error code from CMD to Powershell

Question

I\'m working on a Mssql install script and I want to get the results of a silent mssql installation. In my PowerShell script I run this command:

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Answer 1

Too late maybe but does this help?

start /WAIT cmd.exe /C "YOUR-COMMAND-HERE" & if errorlevel 1 echo 'error occurred'

you can also explicitly return an error code like this:

start /WAIT cmd.exe /C "YOUR-COMMAND-HERE & exit MY-ERROR-CODE" & if errorlevel 1 echo 'error occurred'