Private/Start-ClientProcess.ps1
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Function Start-ClientProcess { <# .SYNOPSIS Starts a process .DESCRIPTION Receives a process object. Returns Object containing ExitCode, StdOut & StdErr .PARAMETER Process System.Diagnostics.Process object containing parameters for a client .EXAMPLE Start-ClientProcess -Process $Process Invokes the Start method on the $Process object .NOTES AUTHOR: Pete Maan #> [CmdLetBinding(SupportsShouldProcess)] [Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("PSShouldProcess", "", Justification = "ShouldProcess handling is in Invoke-PACLICommand")] param( [Parameter( Mandatory = $True, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $True )] [System.Diagnostics.Process]$Process ) Begin { } Process { #Start Process $Process.start() | Out-Null #Read Output Stream First $StdOut = $Process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd() $StdErr = $Process.StandardError.ReadToEnd() #If you wait for the process to exit before reading StandardOutput #the process can block trying to write to it, so the process never ends. $Process.WaitForExit() [PSCustomObject] @{ "ExitCode" = $Process.ExitCode "StdOut" = $StdOut "StdErr" = $StdErr } } End { $Process.Dispose() } } |