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    Good Afternoon all, 

    Created a basic script which will start a job to find the size of a directory. In the start-job script Block, I am creating an object like below:

    $Results = @{}

    $Results.FilePath = "Filepath"
    $Results.FizeSize = "FileSize"

    New-object -typeName PSObject -property $Results

    The functionality is fine, however when I do get-job | Receive-JOB, I get a RunSpaceID as an additional Parameter. If however I do the following:

    ,@(New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $Results)

    Then I get only the objects I require (this has to have a comma as well). My question is what does ,@() do? 

    Monday, June 5, 2017 1:26 PM

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    Same as this:

    $null,@()

    It creates an array with two elements - one is empty and one is an empty array.  Also a short way to do this.

    @(,@())

    It is almost never needed if things are coded correctly but was used to avoid a bug in earlier versions of PS.

    \_(ツ)_/

    • Marked as answer by Satbir Bussan Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:22 AM
    Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:07 AM

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    @() creates an array.

    Try it like this:

    start-job {
		[pscustomobject]@{
			Name = 'joe'
			Age = 12 
		} 
	} |
	Receive-Job -wait -AutoRemoveJob | 
	Select-Object * -ExcludeProperty RunspaceId, PSSourceJobInstanceId

    \_(ツ)_/

    • Proposed as answer by Hello_2018 Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:22 AM
    Monday, June 5, 2017 6:28 PM
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    Good Morning jrv, many thanks for that code, always good to learn different ways to complete tasks. I understand that @() creates an array however the results are very different compared to when I use @() and ,@(). Just curious to understand what the comma in front of the array declaration does. 

    As a side note, I have done something similar to yourself, where I have selected the parameters when working with the output (rather than excluding properties). Appreciate your assistance.

    Tuesday, June 6, 2017 7:54 AM
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    Same as this:

    $null,@()

    It creates an array with two elements - one is empty and one is an empty array.  Also a short way to do this.

    @(,@())

    It is almost never needed if things are coded correctly but was used to avoid a bug in earlier versions of PS.

    \_(ツ)_/

    • Marked as answer by Satbir Bussan Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:22 AM
    Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:07 AM