I don't have access to powershell on linux but I think the syntax would be (ls).Count (where ls is an alias for http://ss64.com/ps/get-childitem.html http://s

I don't have access to powershell on linux but I think the syntax would be (ls).Count (where ls is an alias for http://ss64.com/ps/get-childitem.html http://ss64.com/ps/get-childitem.html which returns .net FileInfo objects, it can also return info for registry paths) and ps | ?{ $_.Name -eq 'tobekilled' } | %{ $_.Kill() } (ps an alias for http://ss64.com/ps/get-process.html http://ss64.com/ps/get-process.html returns .net Process objects) or the equivalent of pkill Stop-Process -Name 'tobekilled'