For loop to open multiple powershell windows

Question

I'm looking for a way to open multiple powershell windows through a script. I tried with the following code, but it doesn't work.

for($1 = 1 ; $i -le 3; $i++)
{
    Start-Process powershell.exe
}

How can I reach this goal?

PMental · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-25 20:29:27Z

1

Not sure where $1 came from, change it to this:

for($i = 1 ; $i -le 3; $i++)
{
    Start-Process powershell.exe
}

and it'll work.

What's the end goal? Opening up new powershell processes will be slow and isn't usually necessary.

answered Jan 25, 2021 at 20:29

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3 Comments

Gennaro Arguzzi Over a year ago

Hello @PMental thank you for your answer. How can I run your code in a powershell window? If I try, nothing happens. The goal is to run a different command in each window to download video from destreamer. I will ask other questions to get this goal.

PMental Over a year ago

How did you run your own code? You can just paste it in the shell, but the best way is obviously to put it in a script and save it to a .ps1 file.

Abraham Zinala Over a year ago

Open ISE, and paste it in the "Scripting Pane" (the white area), and run it by clicking the "play" icon. No need to continue to copy and paste

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