start-job – ThepHuck

PowerShell multithreaded script to recursively search for file types, shows count and total size

I recently had a requirement to build a script that listed all PST files on some of our DFS folders. I know there are a bunch of ways to get this done, but I wanted to build my own way. Since we needed to search roughly 20 directories, I decided to play with the Start-Job cmdlet so I could have one script to spawn multiple worker processes. At first, it was tricky (since I had never even messed with it), but anyone can easily pick it up.