Vista - start-psjob

Hi,

I'm trying to get background jobs to work, and struggling!

(I think part of the problem is that I don't understand in depth the
syntactical nicities of PS - single quoting/double quoting/ampersand/
etc - I know enough to get my scripts to work, but normally by brute
force so if anyone can recommend a detailed explanation on this
topic I'd appreciate it.)

Anyway, to my problem:

start-psjob "'c:\code\databases\myscript.ps1' 'SERVER\INSTANCE' DB1 'c:
\temp' 0 1"

starts a job, but the job then fails with the error:

Unexpected token 'SERVER\INSTANCE' in expression or statement.

I'm pretty sure PS isn't happy with how I'm quoting various
parameters, but I don't know how to fix this.

Can anyone point out where I'm going wrong please?
Also, is there any way I can see how PS is going to parse a start-
job's command, without executing it? I.e. so I can look at what's
being passed to the command to hopefully spot syntax errors before the
job gets run.

TIA,
moff.

On Jan 22, 1:36 pm, Robin Moffatt <robin.moff...@xxxxxx> wrote:

The problem is that you're quoting the script -- and strings aren't
executable. Try using the invoke "&" as in example 4 of the start-
psjob detailed help ...

start-psjob "& 'c:\code\databases\myscript.ps1' 'SERVER\INSTANCE' DB1
'c:\temp' 0 1"

(I think that's all you need, but I don't have a PC I can run it on at
the moment)

I've done some examples of using back ground jobs here

http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.c...3E96!924.entry

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Richard Siddaway
Please note that all scripts are supplied "as is" and with no warranty
Blog: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/
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"Joel (Jaykul) Bennett" wrote:

Hi Richard,
Thanks for your reply. I had a look on your webpage, but couldn't see
anything that addressed my queries?

Thanks, moff.

On Jan 23, 8:29 am, RichS <Ri...@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 22, 6:43 pm, "Joel (Jaykul) Bennett" <Jay...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Thanks for the reply Joel.

FWIW I got it working in the end like this (not sure what would happen
if i had spaces in my script path though)

start-psjob "c:\code\databases\myscript.ps1 'SERVER\INSTANCE' DB1 'c:
\temp' 0 1"

I copied your script into a ps1 file and it's working fine for me:

PS > Start-PSJob .\temp\sql.ps1

SessionId Name State HasMoreData Command
--------- ---- ----- ----------- -------
1 Running True .\temp\sql.ps1


Btw.. you got a space in "c: \temp"

If your scripts path conatins spaces, wrap it with single quotes:

start-psjob "'c:\code\databases\myscript.ps1' 'SERVER\INSTANCE' DB1 'c:\temp'
0 1"


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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com