How do I trap signals in PowerShell?

Question

Is this possible? I\'ve finally decided to start setting up my personal .NET development environment to closer mimic how I\'d set up a *NIX dev environment, which means lear

Answer 1

This handles console kepboard input. If control C is pressed during the loop you'll have a chance to handle the event however you want. In the example code a warning is printed and the loop is exited.

[console]::TreatControlCAsInput = $true
dir -Recurse -Path C:\ | % {
    # Process file system object here...
    Write-Host $_.FullName

    # Check if ctrl+C was pressed and quit if so.
    if ([console]::KeyAvailable) {
        $key = [system.console]::readkey($true)
        if (($key.modifiers -band [consolemodifiers]"control") -and ($key.key -eq "C")) {
            Write-Warning "Quitting, user pressed control C..."
            break
        }
    }

Answer 2

Do you mean something like this?

try
{
    Push-Location
    Set-Location "blah"
    # Do some stuff here
}

finally
{
    Pop-Location
}

See documentation here. Particularly that paragraph: "The Finally block statements run regardless of whether the Try block encounters a terminating error. Windows PowerShell runs the Finally block before the script terminates or before the current block goes out of scope. A Finally block runs even if you use CTRL+C to stop the script. A Finally block also runs if an Exit keyword stops the script from within a Catch block."