commands detail - k

kill

The equivalent of bash’s kill is:

  1. stop-process

A typical usage in Powershell might be:

  1. # find the process
  2. get-process | select id, ProcessName | where {$_.processname -like 'iex*'}
  4. # kill the process
  5. stop-process 5240

There is a built in alias kill which translates to stop-process

  1. get-alias k*
  3. CommandType     Name
  4. -----------     ----
  5. Alias           kill -> Stop-Process