Get-Process

List running processes

beginner System Aliases gpsps

Get-Process

PS> Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

Works on: WindowsLinuxmacOS
PowerShell: 5.1 and later
Reference: Microsoft Learn: Get-Process

PowerShell 7 On Linux and macOS, ps runs the system command instead of this cmdlet. Type the full cmdlet name there.

What you'll see

 NPM(K)    PM(M)      WS(M)     CPU(s)      Id  SI ProcessName
 ------    -----      -----     ------      --  -- -----------
    112   412.30     398.15     812.45    9876   1 chrome
     78   190.02     212.60     301.10    4412   1 Teams
     45    96.44     120.81     120.32    7720   1 explorer
     32    60.18      75.03      44.07    2210   1 OUTLOOK

Lists processes. -Name pwsh filters by name (no .exe). WorkingSet is memory in bytes.

Try this

Get-Process -Name explorer | Format-List *

Coming from another shell

Shell	What you might type
bash / zsh	`ps aux --sort=-%cpu \| head`
cmd.exe	`tasklist`

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