Is there a way for a PowerShell job to report progress or to trigger events before it is complete? I just started playing around with executing background jobs in PowerShell and am wondering how far I can push the capability.
The standard "manual" way is to use the Get-Job cmdlet. As for events, when you create a job with Start-Job, the Job object returned has a "StateChanged" event on it you can subscribe to e.g.:
$job = Start-Job { Get-Process; Start-Sleep -seconds 60 }
Register-ObjectEvent $job -EventName StateChanged `
-SourceIdentifier JobStateChanged `
-Action { Write-Host "Job $($Sender.Id) $($Sender.JobStateInfo)" }
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