Start-Job is a Powershell CmdLet to run a Scriptblock as background job
Questions tagged [start-job]
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Synchronizing PowerShell background jobs
If two background jobs are started from the same session, how can one of them determine that the other has finished?
Initially I tried something like this:
$j1 = Start-Job {
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
"j1 done"
}
$j2 = Start-Job {
…
Serguei
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How to use the same powershell function in the main code and a background process
I want to use the same function in a background process that I use in the body of my main code.
If I write it this way, the "add" function works for the background process but I cannot use it in the main code.
$add = { function add($a,$b) { return…
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Question on use of Powershell start-job -scriptblock or sajb
I see many examples along the lines of:
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*.txt" | ForEach-Object { sajb {ren $_.fullname ($_.directoryname + "\" + "temp_" + $_.name + ".newext") } }
or what I think should be equivalent, using start-job…
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Powershell dynamic Start-Job command to execute all powershell scripts in subfolders in parallel
For an important data migration, I would like to execute in parallel multiple scripts in side subfolders :
I did not succeed to do this :
$folders = Get-ChildItem -Directory
foreach($folder in $folders){
$cmd = "powershell…
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Build an array of data in a start-job in powershell and return it
$frontlineusers = Get-MsolGroupMember -GroupObjectID $frontline -All
Start-Job {
$users = $args[0]
$allusers2 = @()
$svcaccount = ""
$admincred = GetAdminCredentials $svcaccount
Connect-msolservice -Credential…
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Powershell - Start-ThreadJob Ids Incrementing Very Quickly, Why?
New to Powershell and Stackoverflow. Here's my first Powershell Script that I'm trying to optimize to the best of my abilities. My goal is to have the code run as efficiently as possible. Any help/suggestions on that front would be much…
Christien Roy
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Call process, then wait until its end or n second before starting next process
I got my main.ps1 script with a loop calling a sub.ps1.
Currently I wait until the end of sub.ps1 to run the next one.
I would like to do some parallel processing, only in the case that it takes too long.
Some subtleties: I can't edit sub.ps1 and I…
Simon
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How to Start-Job ForEach IP and associate IP with a name for file
I have a script from here, this is the job :
function CaptureWeight {
Start-Job -Name WeightLog -ScriptBlock {
filter timestamp {
$sw.WriteLine("$(Get-Date -Format MM/dd/yyyy_HH:mm:ss) $_")
}
try {
…
user18982890
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How to pass arguments to program when using variable as path
I'm trying to start a program in a Start-job scriptblock using a variable for the path. Here is the line:
All the there variables work, whole line works when I use c:\plink in place of the $plink variable. It errors out on the -telnet so is not…
user18982890
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Start function as a background job with start-job
I am trying to start a function with start-job.
For some reason, I cannot get it to work, the global variables wont pass.
My question would be - how to pass global variables to the function and than to start-job without declaring them inside the…
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Powershell start-job with arguments not working
I cannot figure this one out. what should have been simple, became a real pain.
The following code works. It just that I need to start it in the background and inside a function.
The code:
$EvidenceDirectory = "C:\Evidence"
…
Rusty cole
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Powershell startjob import-module call function with arguments
So I am trying to start-job from a module I wrote.
Copy-Modules.psm1
function startcopy([string] $ShowToCopy) {
if (-not($ShowToCopy)) { return "No name provided. Doing nothing." }
} else { return "Name Provided $ShowToCopy" }
}
in the main…
Lin sain
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Start-Job { } | Receive-Job -Wait -Force returns only partial results of batched Get-AzStorageBlob with MaxCount and ContinuationToken
When we call the following, it returns thousands of results.
$storageContainer =
New-AzStorageContext -ConnectionString $StorageAccountConnectionString `
| Get-AzStorageContainer -Name $BlobContainerName;
$MaxCount = 100;
$Token =…
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Pester 5 test no longer working with Start-Job
This was working before Pester 5.3.0 but now it seems broken and I do not know why it has stopped working. The idea of this tests is to check to see if counters have been removed, this is part of a larger installation and uninstallation. But the…
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Powershell Start-Job with command
Trying to run Start-Job with following code but it doesn't seem to be working. Not sure where am I going wrong with my understanding about the syntax:
$ScriptBlock_test = {
cmd /c "`"$mypath\tools\Parser.exe`" -f $some_file --csv…
Tahir Soomro
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