Is it possible to run an application with PowerShell
and wait until it is finished ? For example I want to run Thunderbird
and after user closes it, then print something to the output ?
Second thing - is it possible to search for this application using thunderbird
keyword like in Start Menu (when we type it manually, it returns a result Mozilla Thunderbird
) - and also run it ?
Thanks !
You can do something like:
Start-Process myprogram.exe -NoNewWindow -Wait
Or if you would like a more concise mechanism, there's always the Out-Null
hack:
myprogram.exe | Out-Null
Piping will wait for the program to terminate, and hence we pipe to Out-Null
As for finding an app, this SO question covers how to do this. Here is another article demonstrating this method.
You might also want to look at this article on how to make Powershell interact with Windows Search and this one, which is what the Start Button uses.
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