Suspending a PowerShell script until a action is complete i.e. opening & closing Notepad

Question

Hi,

Is there a way of suspending a PowerShell script until some action has been completed. For example if I was using a Linux shell and I typed gedit then gedit would load but the shell would be suspended until I closed gedit (unless '&' was added to the end of the command).

Is there anyway to mimick this behaviour with PowerShell? So could I get a script to open Notepad but suspend itself until Notepad was closed again.

Thanks...

Answer 1

You need to use the System.Diagnostics.Process class and call the .WaitForExit method after setting the appropriate ProcessInfo properties to launch Notepad.

Answer 2

Just pipe to Out-Null and PowerShell will wait until the windows app closes:

PS> notepad | out-null

Or as the previous poster points out:

PS> (Start-Process notepad -PassThru).WaitForExit()