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PowerShell Basics: Sorting and Selecting Objects with Sort-Object and Select-Object
# Selecting
#Default
Get-Process
# All Properties
Get-Process | Select-Object -Property * | Out-GridView
# Sorting
# Changes the default sorting order for Get-Process
Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU
# Minimize the data and sort
Get-Process | Select-Object ProcessName, CPU | Sort-Object CPU -Descending
## Caution
# Mission: Get the top 10 processes by CPU usage (which 10 processes have the most CPU usage)
Get-Process |
Select-Object ProcessName, CPU -First 10 |
Sort-Object CPU -Descending
# or
Get-Process |
Sort-Object CPU -Descending |
Select-Object ProcessName, CPU -First 10
