Powershell: Capturing standard out and error with Process object

Question

I want to start a Java program from PowerShell and get the results printed on the console.

I have followed the instructions of this question: Capturing standard out

Answer 1

The docs on the RedirectStandardError property suggests that it is better to put the WaitForExit() call after the ReadToEnd() call. The following works correctly for me:

$psi = New-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo 
$psi.CreateNoWindow = $true 
$psi.UseShellExecute = $false 
$psi.RedirectStandardOutput = $true 
$psi.RedirectStandardError = $true 
$psi.FileName = 'ipconfig.exe' 
$psi.Arguments = @("/a") 
$process = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process 
$process.StartInfo = $psi 
[void]$process.Start()
$output = $process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd() 
$process.WaitForExit() 
$output