Question

I would like to set the following alias up in my powershell profile:

set-alias mem-users get-process | ? {($_.PM -gt 10000000) -or ($_.VM -gt 10000000)} | sort -property PM

But when I try this out and call mem-users I just get the results of get-process. How would I set this up? Do I have to write a custom function? The examples for set-alias show a piped command working with the -passThru parameter but I can’t get it to work.

Answer 1

Aliases are just that – a name substitute and nothing more. What you want is a function:

function mem-hogs
{
    get-process | ? {($_.PM -gt 10000000) -or ($_.VM -gt 10000000)}
}