Normally, for internal commands PowerShell does wait before starting the next command. One exception to this rule is external Windows subsystem based EXE. The first trick is to pipeline to Out-Null
like so:
Notepad.exe | Out-Null
PowerShell will wait until the Notepad.exe process has been exited before continuing. That is nifty but kind of subtle to pick up from reading the code. You can also use Start-Process
with the -Wait
parameter:
Start-Process <path to exe> -NoNewWindow -Wait
If you are using the PowerShell Community Extensions version it is:
$proc = Start-Process <path to exe> -NoNewWindow -PassThru $proc.WaitForExit()
Another option in PowerShell 2.0 is to use a background job:
$job = Start-Job { invoke command here } Wait-Job $job Receive-Job $job
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