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Surya Teja
Surya Teja

Reputation: 53

status of the process in powershell

A process in windows can be in any of the six states i.e, running, ready, blocked, suspend, new and exit. How to know the state a given process (name, ID) using powershell in windows. In UNIX this information is stored in /proc/$processid/status file. Where is it found in windows or how to get this information in powershell.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 20221

Answers (3)

Onluck
Onluck

Reputation: 81

You can try this cmdlet to get all available info of a process:

Get-Process -Name <process name> | Format-List *

then you can try this cmdlet to see the state of that process, if it's True means it's running, if false means it's not running

Get-Process -Name <process name> | select Responding

Upvotes: 0

ivan_pozdeev
ivan_pozdeev

Reputation: 36106

"exit" status is signified by the presense of "exit code" property (natively returned by GetExitCodeProcess()). In PS, it is reflected by HasExited and ExitCode fields in Get-Process (alias ps).

ps | where {$_.Id -eq <PID>} | select HasExited,ExitCode

"running/wait/suspended" in Windows is a status of a thread rather than process ("suspend" being one of several Wait substates). I didn't find any info on getting thread information by PS's built-in means but we can call the corresponding .NET functionality:

$process=[System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetProcessById(<PID>)
$threads=$process.Threads
$threads | select Id,ThreadState,WaitReason

Upvotes: 3

RayofCommand
RayofCommand

Reputation: 4254

You are right, that's an interesting point. A way to find out about the state the process is the following way :

$ProcessActive = Get-Process outlook -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if($ProcessActive -eq $null)
{
 Write-host "I am not running"
}
else
{
 Write-host "I am running"
}

If outlook would not be a running process, it would not be listed but -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue will simply continue and return an I am not running

If it's running it will send you an I am running

I am not aware of other states of a process... at least not how to dertermine

Upvotes: 2

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