Powershell script for service startups pulling from another file-CodePudding

I am trying to implement a powershell script and really need some assistance as I don't really know where to go with this.

Basically I have a file that contains the below:

Service1 , 0
Service2 , 150
Service3 , 0
Service4 , 210

Service1/2/3/4 indicates the service name, and the number represents the number of seconds delay after the service startup.

So service1 gets started, then a 0 second delay. Then service2 gets started, then a 150 second delay, then service3 gets started, then a 0 second delay. And so on.

Has anyone created a powershell script like this before or know of a way to pull this information into a Start-Service script via powershell?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Dan

CodePudding user response：

A simple way of doing is:

$services = get-content C:\temp\sample.txt 

foreach ($line in $services) {
    $serviceName = $line.Split(",")[0]
    $timeWait = $line.Split(",")[1]
    Start-Service -Name $serviceName
    Start-sleep $timeWait
    $status = (Get-Service -Name $serviceName).Status
    Write-Host "The current status of $($serviceName) is $status"

}

CodePudding user response：

Assuming the file format of the csv file is like you provided, you can use Import-Csv, add in some headers with the -Header parameter, and use ForEach-Object to loop through the values and pipe those to commands accordingly to do what you prefer.

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Import-csv -Path "C:\Folder\Services.csv" -Header "service","seconds" | ForEach-Object {
    Start-Service -Name "$($_.service.trim())";
    Start-Sleep -Seconds $_.seconds;
    };

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