powershell multiple threads to get fast resuls ?

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Dear Team,

I need to run the below powershell script to run in multiple threads as it needs to check some 40000 + files to find the email address and output the file name and the email address two a output file.

Currently the below script is giving 30 outputs in an hour (sigh) if i can make it run multiple threads may be 50-100 threads at a time i would be able to complete the process much faster. Need your help to achieve this ?

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foreach($user in $users){“”|select @{label=“proxyAddress2”;expression={sls $user C:\Users\admin\Desktop\folder1*.txt | select -u -exp filename}},@{label=“ews”;expression={$user}}}

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Why are you not using PowerShell workflows / jobs / Runspaces for this. This type of thing is why they exist.

There are many articles on the topic, and a quick search using your favorite engine, and your post title, would bring you back many results / samples / scripts to download and tweak as needed.

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