Problem replace constant with variable

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1

I have two problems:

I try to start a PERL program from a PowerShell. If I use a constant, it starts:

$Job1 = Start-Job { & “C:/Temp/Pause.pl” 10 }

If I try to construct my program name with a variable, it does not work:

$Cmd = “C:/Temp/Pause.pl”;
$Job1 = Start-Job { & $Cmd 10 }

#2
My PERL program looks like this, it basically justs waits for the number of seconds received as a parameter:

my $Delay = $ARGV[0];
print “Start $Delay\n”;
sleep $Delay;
print “End $Delai\n”;

When I start my PERL with this command, and I monitor the job’s state, I would expect to see RUNNING for the duration of the execution of my PERL script, but the job indicates COMPETED after only 1-2 seconds:

$Job1 = Start-Job { & “C:/Temp/Pause.pl” 10 }
For ($i=1; $i -le 15; $i++)
{
Get-Job
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Why does it indicate completed right away, even when my jobs running a PERL program is still running?

2

The variable isn’t inside the scriptblock “{ }”. You need to pass the value with a param() block inside the scriptblock or use the $using: prefix.

3

OK, I am a newbie with PowerShell, I did not know { } created a new session where local variables where no longer available. Now I upgraded my program to this. It launches 3 instances of my PERL program, but it shows all 3 jobs as completed, while they are still running, SHY?

Get-Job | Remove-Job

$Cmd = “$PSScriptRoot\Pause.pl”
Write-Host “Starting jobs`n”;
$Job1 = Start-Job { & $Using:Cmd 10 }
$job2 = Start-Job { & $Using:Cmd 20 }
$Job3 = Start-Job { & $Using:Cmd 30 }

Write-Host “Waiting for jobs`n”
for ($i=1; $i -le 15; $i++)
{
Write-Host "— " $i
Get-Job
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Write-Host “Done`n”