Question

I am have a powershell script that does a few things that all need to be completed sequentially. Currently I am using this code to run a couple external programs (assume I am in the correct directory)

.\program1.exe
.\program2.exe
.\program3.exe

The problem I am having is that these will all run sequentially, not waiting until the previous one is finished. Is there a way to make them wait until the previous program ends?

Answer 1

Most processes will cause PowerShell to wait until their completion unless they do something funky, like Oracle’s installers.

You could try:

Start-Process -FilePath program1.exe -Wait

If this doesn’t work you might have do something like this:

& program1.exe 
while ($true) {
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
    if (-not (Get-Process -Name program1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
        break
    }
}
"...continue here"