{"id":7841,"date":"2015-02-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/14\/powertip-use-powershell-to-start-a-bunch-of-processes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:37","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-start-a-bunch-of-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-start-a-bunch-of-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Start a Bunch of Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to start a bunch of processes by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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 start a whole bunch of processes for testing purposes on one of my systems?<\/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 a Windows PowerShell range operator, such as&nbsp;<b>1..10<\/b>, to specify how many processes you want to create. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Then pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Foreach-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, and in the script block, use&nbsp;<b>Start-Process<\/b>&nbsp;to create <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the commands you need. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1..10 | Foreach {Start-Process notepad}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">You can simplify this command by using&nbsp;<b>%<\/b>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<b>Foreach<\/b>, and by simply calling the executable:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1..10 | % { notepad}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">To check how many processes you created, use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">(Get-Process notepad).count<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to start a bunch of processes by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to start a whole bunch of processes for testing purposes on one of my systems? &nbsp;Use a Windows PowerShell range operator, such as&nbsp;1..10, to specify how many processes you want to [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-7841","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: Learn how to start a bunch of processes by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to start a whole bunch of processes for testing purposes on one of my systems? &nbsp;Use a Windows PowerShell range operator, such as&nbsp;1..10, to specify how many processes you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","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=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/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=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}