I'm looking for a non-blocking way of indenting the output of a command in powershell, by non-blocking I mean the output of the command must be displayed as the process runs.
Start-Process is non-blocking, however I can't figure out how to indent the output.
& { } can be indented, however doesn't output anything until the process is finished.
I came across a similar question on here and the provided solution to that question is as follows:
$ping = & { ping -n 2 google.com } 2>&1
$ping | ForEach-Object {" $_"}
The above code almost does exactly what I need it to, however it won't output anything until the process is completed.. which will not work for my use case.
The only blocking step is the variable assignment, so skip that completely and it'll work as expected:
& { ping -n 2 google.com } 2>&1 |ForEach-Object {" $_"}
If you still want to capture the raw output from the application and store it in a variable, use Tee-Object:
& { ping -n 2 google.com } 2>&1 |Tee-Object -Variable ping |ForEach-Object {" $_"}