Is there a Powershell Get-Childitem timeout property?

Question

I am trying to use the GCI cmdlet to get information on many remote computers, some of which are sometimes turned off or unresponsive. Is there a way I can specify a timeout property for get-childitem so that the script doesn't hang for 15-20 seconds every time it hits an unresponsive computer?

Thanks,

Tomek

Answer 1

Or wrap your gci in test-connection

if (test-connection $server -quiet){ gci }
else {"Connect failed to $server"}

Answer 2

Do your work in a job, then wait on it using wait-job (which has a timeout argument):

$job = Start-Job {Sleep -seconds 60}
$res = Wait-Job $job -timeout 5
if(-not $res) { write-Host "Timeout"}