Waiting in PowerShell for all child processes to finish

And don't forget about probably the most straight forward way to do this for mulitple processes - Wait-Process e.g.:

$procs = $(Start-Process Notepad.exe -PassThru; Start-Process Calc.exe -PassThru)$procs | Wait-Process

powershell process wait

Did you check the background jobs feature in PowerShell v2?

$job = Start-Job -Name "Proc1" -ScriptBlock { Sleep 10000 }Wait-Job -Job $job

Also, Start-Process has a parameter called -wait. When specified, Start-Process will wait for the child to exit.

Start-Process -FilePath calc.exe -Wait

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