Powershell: Don't wait on function return

You can start a method as an asynchronous job, using the Start-Job cmdlet.

So, you would do something like this:

function generate_html($var){#snipped}Start-Job -ScriptBlock { generate_html team1 }

If you need to monitor if the job is finished, either store the output of Start-Job or use Get-Job to get all jobs started in the current session, pulling out the one you want.Once you have that, check the State property to see if the value is Finished

EDIT:Actually, my mistake, the job will be in another thread, so functions defined or not available (not in a module that powershell knows about) in the thread from which you start your job are not available.

Try declaring your function as a scriptblock:

$generateHtml = {     param($var)    #snipped}Start-Job -ScriptBlock $generateHtml -ArgumentList team1Start-Job -ScriptBlock $generateHtml -ArgumentList team2

For me, the issue was my function would create a Windows Forms GUI, and stopped the remaining script from running until I closed out the Windows Forms GUI. I found the solution, but for a different command, here: Using Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock on a function with arguments.

Within the -ScriptBlock parameter, use ${function:YOUR_FUNCTION}

function generate_html($var) {    # code}Start-Job -ScriptBlock ${function:generate_html} -ArgumentList "team1"Start-Job -ScriptBlock ${function:generate_html} -ArgumentList "team2"

Also, if you don't want console output from Start-Job, just pipe it to Out-Null:

Start-Job -ScriptBlock ${function:generate_html} -ArgumentList "team1" | Out-NullStart-Job -ScriptBlock ${function:generate_html} -ArgumentList "team2" | Out-Null