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leeand00
leeand00

Reputation: 26382

How does one obtain the pid of a process started from powershell?

If I use powershell to run an external command, how do I obtain it's pid?

I'd like to obtain it for purposes of gracefully exiting it later (not just straight up killing the process, but rather doing it in more the sense of a finally block)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2267

Answers (2)

gvee
gvee

Reputation: 17161

Get-Process

Write-Output (Get-Process -Name "Sonos").Id

That will get you the PID - however based on what you're describing it's easier to the output of Get-Process to a variable and deal with the object instead

try {
    $process = Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Sonos\Sonos.exe"
    Write-Output $process.Id
}
catch {
    throw
}
finally {
    if ($process) {
        Stop-Process -InputObject $process
        # Alternative: $process | Stop-Process
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Russell
Russell

Reputation: 17719

Using System.Diagnostics.Process object, you can start a process, and return a Process object, which includes the newly created process PID.

For example:

$Process = [Diagnostics.Process]::Start("nssm.exe")   
Write-Host $Process.Id

Upvotes: 1

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