Run a program from PowerShell with timeout

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I'll write a script that runs a program and wait for it finished. But if the program is not finished within a specified time I want that the program is killed.

Alexander Egger · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-17 10:10:16Z

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Here is a script which does that. See Windows PowerShell Blog for the original example.

$p = [diagnostics.process]::start("notepad.exe")
if ( ! $p.WaitForExit(1000) ) 
  { echo "Notepad did not exit after 1000ms"; $p.kill() }

answered Nov 17, 2009 at 10:10

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Keith Hill Over a year ago

On PowerShell 2.0 you can replace that first line with `$p = Start-Process Notepad -passthru'

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