Trapping CTRL+C in Powershell V2

Question

_{Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:59 PM}

 HI Scripting guys,

Can you please detail on,how I trap ctrl+c key pressed when a script is running,is it a way to make asynchronous calls o the console,so that anytime user presses ctrl+c i can trap that event?

Thanks,

 

Nishant

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:06 PM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

A search turned this up: http://www.vistax64.com/powershell/23707-handling-ctrl-c-function.html

It might do what you need.

[console]::TreatControlCAsInput = $true
while ($true)
{
write-host "Processing..."
if ([console]::KeyAvailable)
{
$key = [system.console]::readkey($true)
if (($key.modifiers -band [consolemodifiers]"control") -and
($key.key -eq "C"))
{
"Terminating..."
break
}
}
}

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_{Monday, November 1, 2010 8:57 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

You may start your script as a job.

start-job -scriptblock {. Pathofyourscript.ps1}

Then stop the job if CTRL+C is pressed:

[console]::TreatControlCAsInput = $true
while ($true)
{

 Start-Sleep -s 30

if ([console]::KeyAvailable)
{
$key = [system.console]::readkey($true)
if (($key.modifiers -band [consolemodifiers]"control") -and
($key.key -eq "C"))
{
"Terminating..."

get-job | stop-job

break
}
}
}

For your reference:

about_Jobs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315273.aspx

Thanks.

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_{Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:17 PM}

Thanks for your reply.

Also I wanted to know as my script will be running for 30 minutes,so how i will call this asynchronously so that anytime a ctrl+c key is pressed i trap that,something same like pseventing snappin do for powershell v1.

 

Thanks