Diagnostics.Process]::Start($StartInfo).WaitForExit

edman747 · Jun 19, 2010

Hello,
Using a Vista home x64 powershell script. Want to launch a program in a loop and wait for it to exit, it has lots of parameters, with variable length arguments.

The program I am trying to launch is:
hlds.exe -console -insecure -game svencoop4 -port 27025 -noipx -num_edicts 4096 +log on +maxplayers 12 +map osprey

1. This works in powershell command line: .\hlds.exe -console -insecure -game svencoop4 -port 27025 -noipx -num_edicts 4096 +log on +maxplayers 12 +map osprey

In a script with a loop it is like a Disney comic The sorcerers apprentice.

2. This should cause it to waitforexit.
.\hlds.exe -console -insecure -game svencoop4 -port 27025 -noipx -num_edicts 4096 +log on +maxplayers 12 +map osprey | out-null

The hlds -console opens up, but hlds.exe hangs and fails to initialize.

3. Have trimmed the arguments down, appear to be having problems with the various +/- arguments intercepted as unary operators. It prints a warning/error and ignores the hlds -console argument and the waitforexit then loops.

$StartInfo = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$StartInfo.FileName = 'hlds.exe'
$StartInfo.Arguments="-console +map c1a1 -game svencoop4"
$StartInfo.LoadUserProfile = $false
$StartInfo.UseShellExecute = $false
$StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = (get-location).Path
$proc = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($StartInfo).WaitForExit()

Any Help?

TIA

SAS123 · Apr 5, 2011

example:

Code:

$command = ".\srcds.exe"
$appArgs = "-console -game cstrike -port 27015 +fps_max 0 +maxplayers 28 +map de_dust2"
$priority = "High"
while (1)
{
$process = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($command, $appArgs)
$process.PriorityClass = [System.Diagnostics.ProcessPriorityClass]::$priority
$process.WaitForExit()
Write "Сервер остановлен. Рестарт произойдет через 5 сек."
Start-Sleep -Second 5
Write " "
}

Diagnostics.Process]::Start($StartInfo).WaitForExit

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