What is the difference between a terminating and non-terminating error?
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A terminating error stops the current operation and can be caught directly.
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A terminating error stops the current operation and can be caught directly. Many cmdlets emit non-terminating errors and continue; -ErrorAction Stop can promote those to terminating errors for controlled handling.
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Would native application exit codes behave exactly like PowerShell exceptions?
