Exercises

The following are some exercises to help you solidify your knowledge of this chapter:

1. How can we use PowerShell to display just the day of the week it is today?
2. We need to get a list of CPU usage and the locations of all our running processes, and we don’t want a lot of unnecessary information. How do we do that?
3. Now that we’ve got our list, how can we get the path names in reverse alphabetical order?
4. There’s a lot of stuff here. How do we ensure it only lists the processes that have a CPU usage of greater than 5?
5. What is the most efficient way to get a list of read-only files from our home drive?
6. We need to get the size of all the files in our home directory. We just want the name and the size in bytes.
7. We have a file that contains a list of process names, called processes.txt. we need to use it to discover information about the processes on our local machine, so we will need to find a cmdlet that can get content from...