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sailingbikeruk
sailingbikeruk

Reputation: 326

PowerShell - provide console output to user while waiting for jobs (start-job) to finish

I use this script to run some jobs:

#========================================================================
#Get User stats with ADInfo < --- need to see if this can be converted to native PowerShell
$XMLConfig = Get-ChildItem c:\ADInfo\XML_Config_Files

$Jobs = @()

#loop through each config file and run ADAudit - there is one file per domain
foreach ($config in $XMLConfig) {
        write-host "Starting a background job for $($config.name)"
        $Jobs += start-job -ScriptBlock {c:\ADInfoCmd.exe /config $args[0] } -ArgumentList $config.fullname.tostring()
}

write-host "`nJobs are running"


#=======================================================================
#End of script

Some jobs take much longer than others and I would like to be able to send a user friendly update to the console when any one of the started jobs are still running to show the script hasn't stalled.

I tried something like this

do{
write-host "working..."
}
while (wait-job $jobs)

but it writes once and then waits for the jobs to finish

I tried this

$joblist = get-job $jobs | where state -eq running
while ($joblist){
write-host "working..."
}

but I get an error for all the jobs get-job : The command cannot find the job because the job name System.Management.Automation.PSRemotingJob was not found and $joblist is never assigned a value.

Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1114

Answers (1)

sailingbikeruk
sailingbikeruk

Reputation: 326

I had passed the entire PS Object to get-job. It worked when I passed only the job ID

This is what I ended up using and provides enough feedback to the user to demonstrate the script is still working.

write-host "`nJobs are running" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline
$RunningJobs = Get-Job $jobs.id | where state -eq running
while($runningjobs){
    write-host "." -NoNewline
    $RunningJobs = Get-Job $jobs.id | where state -eq running
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
}
Write-host "Background Jobs Complete"
Write-Host "Script Ends" -ForegroundColor Yellow

Upvotes: 1

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