I have been doing a lot of powershell scripting for my senior thesis. I had the need to run a\u00a0background\u00a0job and did not find helpful information through searching Google so I figured I would post this.<\/p>\n
Powershell 2 support running scripts in the background with a simple command. The only caveat is that it will only run other powershell scripts.<\/p>\n
Start a background job:\u00a0$job=start-job “script.ps1”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Wait for the job to finish:\u00a0wait-job($job)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I have been doing a lot of powershell scripting for my senior thesis. 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