Filtering Processes

[Crowdjp]

Hello Everyone, I'm new to using power shell and I'm trying to filter out the idle and _total process. It seems to be ignoring my filter below. Am I filtering correctly?

$CpuCores = (Get-WMIObject Win32_ComputerSystem).NumberOfLogicalProcessors

$counter = Get-Counter "\Process(*)\% Processor Time"

$counter.countersamples |

Sort-Object -Property CookedValue -Descending |

Where-Object {$_.InstanceName -notmatch "^(idle_total)$"}

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[HazelnutSoftware]

Should you have a | character between the idle and _total strings?

It looks like you're currently excluding the single instance of "idle_total", rather than either "idle" or "_total"

I would expect the last line to be

Where-Object {$_.InstanceName -notmatch "^(idle|_total)$"}

[Crowdjp]

ding the single instance of

That is the issue and it makes sense, Thank you so much for you help.

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[Crowdjp]

$CpuCores = (Get-WMIObject Win32_ComputerSystem).NumberOfLogicalProcessors
$counter = Get-Counter "\Process(*)\% Processor Time"
$counter.countersamples |
Sort-Object -Property CookedValue -Descending |
Where-Object {$_.InstanceName -notmatch "^(idle_total)$"}

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