PowerShell PowerShell Background Jobs Basic job management
Example
Get a list of all jobs in the current session:
Get-Job
Waiting on a job to finish before getting the result:
$job | Wait-job | Receive-Job
Timeout a job if it runs too long (10 seconds in this example)
$job | Wait-job -Timeout 10
Stopping a job (completes all tasks that are pending in that job queue before ending):
$job | Stop-Job
Remove job from current session's background jobs list:
$job | Remove-Job
Note: The following will only work on Workflow Jobs.
Suspend a Workflow Job (Pause):
$job | Suspend-Job
Resume a Workflow Job:
$job | Resume-Job
