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How to tell PowerShell to wait for each command to end before starting the next?

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Normally, for internal commands PowerShell does wait before starting the next command. One exception to this rule is external Windows subsystem based EXE. The first trick is to pipeline to Out-Null like so: Notepad.exe | Out-Null PowerShell will wait until the Notepad.exe process has been exited before continuing. That is nifty but kind of subtle … Read more

Asynchronous vs synchronous execution, what is the main difference? [closed]

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When you execute something synchronously, you wait for it to finish before moving on to another task. When you execute something asynchronously, you can move on to another task before it finishes. That being said, in the context of computers this translates into executing a process or task on another “thread.” A thread is a … Read more