Powershell using if and exit

Question

I have the below script to disable the task scheduler job, which should disable the job if it is not disabled, but it exits the window without disabling , what am I missing here? Any thoughts?

if ((Get-ScheduledTask -taskname test | Select-Object -ExpandProperty State) -notmatch "disabled") { exit 1 }
Disable-ScheduledTask -taskname test

Answer 1

Hi @Saravanaraj-6475 ,

please try this:

if ((Get-ScheduledTask -taskname test | Select-Object -ExpandProperty State) -notmatch "disabled") {
    Disable-ScheduledTask -taskname test
}

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi，

The PowerShell console exits because of "exit 1". The "exit" keyword makes PowerShell exit the current script or PowerShell instance.

Exit

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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Answer 3

@Saravanaraj-6475 ,

If you like you can use Exit

if ((Get-ScheduledTask -taskname test | Select-Object -ExpandProperty State) -notmatch "disabled") {  
    Disable-ScheduledTask -taskname test  
    Exit 1  
}  

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten