Examples using aliases

Question 1

Get-Process p* | Stop-Process
or
ps p* | kill

Answer 1

Stop all processes that begin with the letter ‘p’

Question 2

Get-Process | Where-Obejct {$.ws -gt 1000MB} | Stop-Process
or
ps | ? {$.ws -gt 1000MB} | kill

Answer 2

Find the processes that use more than 1000 MB of memory and kill them.

Question 3

Get-ChildItem | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum
or
ls | measure length -s
or
dir | measure length -s

Answer 3

Calculate the number of bytes in the files directory.

Question 4

$processToWatch = Get-Process Notepad
$processToWatch.Wait.ForExit()
or
(ps notepad).WaitForExit()

Answer 4

Determine whether a specific process is no longer running.

Wait for process to stop and then continue.