How can I start a background job in Powershell that outlives it's parent?

Question

Consider the following code:

start-job -scriptblock { sleep 10; cmd /c set > c:\\env.txt; }
exit

The background job is killed when the p

Answer 1

You can also do it like that

$a = start-job -scriptblock { sleep 10; cmd /c set > c:\env.txt; }
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $a -EventName StateChanged -SourceIdentifier "finished"
$b = Wait-Event -SourceIdentifier "finished"
exit

Your script will wait for the end of the scriptblock to finish.