Transform Your PowerShell Scripting Start-Process with PassThru for Enhanced Automation

... process = Start-Process "C:\PathToExe\xxx.exe" -NoNewWindow -Wait -PassThru -ArgumentList $RxArguments. Don't try to attach it to the path of the executable ... ... PassThru Wait-Process -Id $p.Id 'External Script ended with exit code ' + $p.ExitCode. If you call the script directly (without Start-Process) ... And we can't get the process ID to kill it because to keep the job running, we generally need to use Start-Process with the -Wait and -PassThru ... Note that the example process in this sample is a second PowerShell instance, basically executing a Start-Sleep command to simulate some long ... If you use the Start-Procces cmdlet with the -PassThru parameter you can use a variable to check the current status, in this case you want ... Stop-Process. Stop one or more running processes. (Kill) Syntax Stop-Process -name string[] [-passThru] [-Force] [-confirm] [-whatIf] [CommonParameters] ... $Uninstall = Start-Process $Executable -ArgumentList $AdditionalArguments -NoNewWindow -PassThru ... wait for the uninstallation process. There is another issue with PowerShell and Ssis, when you call any Start-Process in ps script, add -PassThru -Wait to force PowerShell to wait for a process to ... ... PassThru = $true; NoNewWindow = $true; } if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess("Process [$($FilePath)]", "Run with args: [$($ArgumentList)]")) { $cmd = ... If you specify a non-executable file, Start-Process starts the program that is associated with the file, similar to the Invoke-Item cmdlet. You can use the ...