What is the use of Passthru parameter in Stop-Process in PowerShell?
With the Passthru parameter, PowerShell returns the output in the console. For example, below notepad.exe process with ID 12344 will be stopped and the same will be displayed in the console with the Passthru parameter. Earlier it was not the case with only Stop-Process.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Stop-Process -Id 12344 -PassThru
Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) CPU(s) Id SI ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ------ -- -- -----------
227 13 2800 13440 0.19 12344 1 notepad
You can also combine –Confirm and –PassThru parameters.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Stop-Process -Id 26492 -Confirm -PassThru
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing the operation "Stop-Process" on target "notepad (26492)".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): Y
Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) CPU(s) Id SI ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ------ -- -- -----------
228 14 3152 13736 0.20 26492 1 notepad
Published on 22-Jan-2020 16:59:42
