Parallelization with background jobs

The term parallelization does not strictly apply to background jobs. However, jobs are a great way in PowerShell Core to run multiple operations more or less in parallel in the background.

This recipe teaches you how to use jobs and how the & operator works.

Getting ready

Install and start PowerShell Core.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Discover the existing job cmdlets first:

Get-Command -Noun Job

2. Then start a new job that lists running processes:

Start-Job -Name MyJob -ScriptBlock { Get-Process }

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