Get-Job by State and Name?

powershell, powershell-3.0

Solution

Try the following

Get-Job -State Completed | Where-Object {$_.Name.Contains("TestJob")}

Here's a sample run based on your example

PS D:\>  Get-Job -State Completed | Where-Object {$_.Name.Contains("Job")}

Id              Name            State      HasMoreData     Location             Command
--              ----            -----      -----------     --------             -------
1               TestJob         Completed  True            localhost             Write-Host "foo"
3               TestJob         Completed  True            localhost             Write-Host "foo"

See `Get-Help Where-Object` for more info on this.

Problem

Powershell v3. ``` Start-Job -Name "TestJob" -ScriptBlock { Write-Host "foo" } ``` The job starts fine. I then type ``` Get-Job ``` and I see ``` Id Name PSJobTypeName State HasMoreData Location Command -- ---- ------------- ----- ----------- -------- ------- 18 TestJob BackgroundJob Completed True localhost Write-Host "foo" ``` Everything is going according to plan so far. But now let's say I have many jobs running in this session, and they have various different names. So I want to find only the jobs that are named TestJob: ``` Get-Job -Name TestJob ``` This also works exactly as expected, returning only the jobs of that name. But now let's say I want to find jobs that both have the name TestJob and are still running: ``` PS C:\> Get-Job -Name TestJob -State Running Get-Job : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters. At line:1 char:1 + Get-Job -Name TestJob -State Running + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-Job], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameterSet,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetJobCommand ``` Is there a way to do this?

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