Work in the Prompt mode

- Windows PowerShell's prompt is pretty smart,…but if you don't know exactly what it's doing,…it can actually be stupid seeming and frustrating.…Here's what you'll run into sometimes.…Let's just type a command like Get-Service,…we'll pipe it to where object and we'll, let's say, select -…Oh, something easy.…Just keep the ones where the status is equal to Running…and we'll close that and hit, and what happened?…Well, here's what happened.…I forgot the other quotation mark…on the other side of Running.…

PowerShell's waiting for me to finish.…In this case, there's no way I can finish…and have this work correctly.…I'd already typed in my closing curly bracket.…So, I'm going to hit control+C.…That lets me get out of there.…Probably most of the time you get that prompt…without expecting it, hitting control+C…and just sort of starting over is the right thing to do.…You can still hit your up arrow, go back, fix it,…and then hit Enter.…But there's sometimes when that extended…or continued prompt mode can be really, really useful.…