Question

I am trying to get a list of running processes and filter by two process names – can any one tell me how to get this working?

I’ve so far got it working and filtering out one process name:

$rn = Get-WMIObject Win32_Process -computer servername `
  -credential mydomain\administrator -filter "Name='program1.exe'" |
  select -expand path
$lst = Get-Content “C:\path\path2\List.txt”
Compare-Object $lst $rn

What I want it to do is filter two process names but nothing I’ve tried works. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Create an array of the processes you’re after:

$processes = @('winword.exe', 'notepad.exe', 'excel.exe') | `
    % {
       $rn = Get-WMIObject Win32_Process -computer servername -credential mydomain\admin -filter "Name='$_'" | select -expand path 
       #$lst = Get-Content “C:\path\path2\List.txt” 
       #Compare-Object $lst $rn
       write-host $rn
    }

I’ve commented out your compare so you can see how we are looping through the array clearly.