{"id":1571,"date":"2014-04-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/04\/19\/powertip-use-powershell-to-pause-execution\/"},"modified":"2014-04-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-pause-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-pause-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Pause Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to pause execution for a specific time to wait for a process to exit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;I have a process that normally exits within four seconds, and I want to pause the execution of my script to wait&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; for this process to exit.&nbsp;If it does not exit in time, I want an error to occur. How can I easily do this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Wait-Process<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the name of the process and the wait time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Wait-Process -Timeout 4 -Name notepad<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">In this command, if Notepad does not exit within four seconds, and error occurs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to pause execution for a specific time to wait for a process to exit. &nbsp;I have a process that normally exits within four seconds, and I want to pause the execution of my script to wait&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; for this process to exit.&nbsp;If it does not exit in time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to pause execution for a specific time to wait for a process to exit. &nbsp;I have a process that normally exits within four seconds, and I want to pause the execution of my script to wait&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; for this process to exit.&nbsp;If it does not exit in time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}