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PowerShell threading commandlets

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PowerShell threading commandlets

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- [Narrator] Let's talk a little more about threading, 'coz threading is fairly complex topic. So we don't have just the Start-Job cmdlet that we hope for. We do have various other cmdlets available to us as well. So we have the Start-Job cmdlet, which we obviously just saw. That kicks off a background task. We also have Stop-Job, so if you destroy the output of the start-job cmdlet into a variable, we can then use it in some of these other cmdlets when we use that same variable. So when you use that variable in Stop-Job, that's going to stop a background task. We can pause a job using Wait-Job and again just passing the output of Start-Job. And that's going to pause the parent thread and wait for all the jobs to be finished. We also have commands like Receive-Job. So it's going to get the results of the background job that was started by the calling thread. So if we had a parent thread and you do need to get output from that cmdlet, you can do that with the Receive-Job. You can get…

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