Discussion on: Write a function that shows off something unique or interesting about the language you're using

[Sung M. Kim]

A PowerShell script to get 5 most CPU intensive processes.

PowerShell passes .NET CLI object(s) into the next pipeline (<-- this is most unique feature of all shells) so there is need to parse text as you do in other shells (using sed or awk).

PS C:\misc\sources> gps | sort -desc cpu | select -first 5 id, cpu, processname

   Id         CPU ProcessName
   --         --- -----------
 9352 7230.578125 firefox
13124 6531.015625 firefox
10460      6419.5 firefox
 2296  6017.03125 firefox
 9172 4406.453125 firefox

[Vinay Pai]

This is pretty neat

[Sung M. Kim]

Thanks Vinay.