PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

As we have already discussed, our goal here is to work with processes:

1. List out the cmdlets that help you work with processes:

PS> Get-Command -Noun Process

Remember that PowerShell uses only singular nouns.

We get five cmdlets. What we initially need is Get-Process.

2. Run the cmdlet to see what it shows:

PS> Get-Process

The output is a long table of processes, the memory they are consuming, the CPU time they are using, and so on.

3. Get the total count of processes currently running in the system:

PS> (Get-Process).Count

4. Fetch the average of the pages of memory used by the processes. The term for this is Working Set, denoted as WS:

PS> Get-Process | Measure-Object -Property WS -Average

5. There are other fields in the hash ...