Question

In Powershell I am attempting to get counters for a process (winword.exe) and then put those into a table like so:

Process Name     CPU Usage(%)    Memory Usage(KB)
winword.exe      20%             234524324
winword.exe      15%             123343443
....

I can get the counters using get-counter \process(winword*)… but this diplays each individual counter information as a list even when I choose format-table.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

Here is the script which format exactly the way you asked for:

$a = @{Expression={$_.Name};Label="Process Name";width=15}, `
@{Expression={$_.ID};Label="Process ID";width=15}, `
@{Expression={$_.CPU};Label="CPU Utilization(%)";width=18}, `
@{Expression={$_.VM};Label="Virtual Memory(K)";width=18} 

Get-Process | Format-Table $a

Just save above as script and then run in Powershell and you will see the results as below:

Process Name         Process ID CPU Utilization(%)  Virtual Memory(K)
------------         ---------- ------------------  -----------------
chrome                     7080         65.8636222          340889600
chrome                     7668          0.8268053          199081984
chrome                     8512          4.3836281          168914944

You can modify the script to add/remove more columns and format as you like.