Wait-Process

Waits for the processes to be stopped before accepting more input. PowerShell reference

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What it does

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Waits for the processes to be stopped before accepting more input. The Wait-Process cmdlet waits for one or more running processes to be stopped before accepting input. In the PowerShell console, this cmdlet suppresses the command prompt until the processes are stopped. You can specify a process by process name or process ID (PID), or pipe a process object to Wait-Process. Wait-Process works only on processes running on the local computer.

Wait-Process [-Name] <String[]> [[-Timeout] <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]

Wait-Process [-Id] <Int32[]> [[-Timeout] <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]

Wait-Process [[-Timeout] <Int32>] -InputObject <Process[]> [<CommonParameters>]

Stop a process and wait

PS C:> $nid = (Get-Process notepad).Id
PS C:> Stop-Process -Id $nid
PS C:> Wait-Process -Id $nid

Identify

Specifying a process

PS C:> $p = Get-Process notepad
PS C:> Wait-Process -Id $p.Id
PS C:> Wait-Process -Name "notepad"
PS C:> Wait-Process -InputObject $p

Identify

Wait for processes for a specified time

PS C:> Wait-Process -Name outlook, winword -Timeout 30Identify

Its page in the reference: Wait-Process.

Parameters

4 in the PowerShell reference

-IdSpecifies the process IDs of the processes. To specify multiple IDs, use commas to separate the IDs. To find the PID of a process, type Get-Process.

-InputObjectSpecifies the processes by submitting process objects. Enter a variable that contains the process objects, or type a command or expression that gets the process objects, such as the Get-Process cmdlet.

-NameSpecifies the process names of the processes. To specify multiple names, use commas to separate the names. Wildcard characters are not supported.

-TimeoutSpecifies the maximum time, in seconds, that this cmdlet waits for the specified processes to stop. When this interval expires, the command displays a non-terminating error that lists the processes that are still running, and ends the wait. By default, there is no time-out.

Wait-Process

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