Testing to see if a scheduled task exist in powershell

Question

I can't figure out why the below code won't work:

Function createFirefoxTask() {
   $schedule = new-object -com Schedule.Service 
   $schedule.connect() 
   $tasks = $schedule.getfolder("\").gettasks(0)

   foreach ($task in ($tasks | select Name)) {
      echo "TASK: $task.name"
      if($task.equals("FirefoxMaint")) {
         write-output "$task already exists"
         break
      }
   }
} 
createFirefoxTask

The output I get is this:

FirefoxMaint                                                                          

TASK: @{Name=FirefoxMaint}.name
TASK: @{Name=Task1}.name
TASK: @{Name=Task2}.name
TASK: @{Name=Task3}.name
TASK: @{Name=Task4}.name
TASK: @{Name=Task5}.name

If I echo $task.name from the shell without going through the script, it properly displays the name.

Answer 1

In order to prevent errors with Get-ScheduledTask in case the task doesn't exist - you might want to consider doing :

$taskName = "FireFoxMaint"
$taskExists = Get-ScheduledTask | Where-Object {$_.TaskName -like $taskName }

if($taskExists) {
   # Do whatever 
} else {
   # Do whatever
}