Automatically pulling data from a PowerShell job while running
You can return data from a job by raising an event and forwarding it back to the local session.
Here is an example:
$job = Start-Job -Name "ReturnMessage" -ScriptBlock { # forward events named "MyNewMessage" back to job owner # this even works across machines Register-EngineEvent -SourceIdentifier MyNewMessage -Forward while($true) { sleep 2 $i++ $message = "This is message $i." # raise a new progress event, assigning to $null to prevent # it ending up in the job's output stream $null = New-Event -SourceIdentifier MyNewMessage -MessageData $message } }$event = Register-EngineEvent -SourceIdentifier MyNewMessage -Action { Write-Host $event.MessageData -ForegroundColor Green}<# Run this to stop job and event listner$job,$event| Stop-Job -PassThru| Remove-Job#>Note that you can still type at the prompt while the job is running. Execute the code in the block comments to stop the job and event listner.