Run a PowerShell Command in Windows PowerShell

Problem

You want to run a PowerShell command.

Solution

To run a PowerShell command, type its name at the command prompt. For example:

PS >GetProcess

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName

133 5 11760 7668 46 1112 audiodg

184 5 33248 508 93 1692 avgamsvr

143 7 31852 984 97 1788 avgemc

Discussion

The GetProcess command is an example of a native PowerShell command, called a cmdlet. As compared to traditional commands, cmdlets provide significant benefits to both administrators and developers:

• They share a common and regular commandline syntax.
• They support rich pipeline scenarios (using the output of one command as the input of another).
• They produce easily manageable objectbased output, rather than errorprone plain text output.

Because the GetProcess cmdlet generates rich objectbased output, you can use its output for many processrelated tasks.

The GetProcess cmdlet is just one of the many that PowerShell supports.