Process Management

This section covers the essential cmdlets for viewing and interacting with processes running on the system. These are the PowerShell equivalents of common Linux commands like ps and kill.

A major advantage of PowerShell’s approach is its object-oriented nature. Instead of returning plain text that needs to be parsed, Get-Process returns a collection of rich Process objects. Each object contains detailed properties like CPU usage, memory consumption (WS), process ID, and name. This allows for powerful sorting, filtering, and management directly through the pipeline.

The two core cmdlets covered here are:

• Get-Process: For listing and examining running processes.
• Stop-Process: For terminating processes.