{"id":72312,"date":"2015-07-07T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/07\/powertip-use-powershell-to-get-unique-list-of-process-names\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:05","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-get-unique-list-of-process-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-get-unique-list-of-process-names\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Get Unique List of Process Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to get a list of unique process names.<\/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 Windows PowerShell to obtain a list of all the unique process names running on my system?<\/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 the&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Select-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the&nbsp;<b>Name<\/b>&nbsp;property <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Unique<\/b>&nbsp;switch:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Process | select name -Unique<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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 to get a list of unique process names. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to obtain a list of all the unique process names running on my system? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet, pipe the results to the&nbsp;Select-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the&nbsp;Name&nbsp;property &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and the&nbsp;&ndash;Unique&nbsp;switch: Get-Process | select name -Unique<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to get a list of unique process names. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to obtain a list of all the unique process names running on my system? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet, pipe the results to the&nbsp;Select-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the&nbsp;Name&nbsp;property &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and the&nbsp;&ndash;Unique&nbsp;switch: Get-Process | select name -Unique<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312","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=72312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312\/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=72312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}