{"id":504,"date":"2014-10-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/10\/22\/powertip-use-powershell-4-0-where-operator-to-filter\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-4-0-where-operator-to-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-4-0-where-operator-to-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell 4.0 Where Operator to Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Where<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;operator to filter results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use a&nbsp;<b>Where<\/b>&nbsp;operator in Windows PowerShell (without using the pipeline or&nbsp;<b>Where-Object<\/b>) <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to filter through processes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;to group the processes into a collection, then use the&nbsp;<b>Where<\/b>&nbsp;operator <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and filter on the process name, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">(Get-process).Where({$_.ProcessName -eq &#039;winlogon&#039;})<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0&nbsp;Where&nbsp;operator to filter results. &nbsp;How can I use a&nbsp;Where&nbsp;operator in Windows PowerShell (without using the pipeline or&nbsp;Where-Object) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to filter through processes? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;&nbsp;to group the processes into a collection, then use the&nbsp;Where&nbsp;operator &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and filter on the process name, for example: (Get-process).Where({$_.ProcessName -eq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-4-0","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0&nbsp;Where&nbsp;operator to filter results. &nbsp;How can I use a&nbsp;Where&nbsp;operator in Windows PowerShell (without using the pipeline or&nbsp;Where-Object) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to filter through processes? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;&nbsp;to group the processes into a collection, then use the&nbsp;Where&nbsp;operator &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and filter on the process name, for example: (Get-process).Where({$_.ProcessName -eq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}