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Introduce new preference variable '$ForcePreference' similar to '$ConfirmPreference'
See original GitHub issueSummary of the new feature/enhancement
In a nutshell, there is no way to generally -Force all cmdlets to suppress prompts.
This requires to add -Force to every cmdlet:
My-CmdletWithConfirmation –Force
While for -Confirm someone could set the $ConfirmPreference, there is no such variable for -Force. See also
use -confirm instead of “-force” and Everything you wanted to know about ShouldProcess.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Introduce a preference variable $ForcePreference similar to $ConfirmPreference.
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- Created 3 years ago
- Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)
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Thank you @mklement0 - very helpful! 🥇
Glad to hear it, @fawohlsc. Don’t know if it’s required in your case, but I forgot to mention that you should run
$PSDefaultParameterValues = $PSDefaultParameterValues.Clone()first, to create a local copy of the dictionary; without that,$PSDefaultParameterValues['*:Force']- even when run in a non-global scope - takes effect globally. I’ve updated my previous comment accordingly.