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