[SOLVED] provide name to a powershell process

provide name to a powershell process

I have created a long running process from powershell which runs a command for quite some time as follows:

Start-process "powershell" "long running command"

I want to give this process a custom name or some kind of tag of type string to refer the process later.

Is this possible to name a powershell process launched from powershell ?

I can't use pid in my case because we have to provide our client process-search ability using a name provided by him.

Solution

You could have your script modify the WindowTitle property at the start of its execution, as follows:

$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = 'Your Custom Title'

You could then identify your specific process by using Get-Process powershell and checking the MainWindowTitle property.

Get-Process PowerShell | Where-Object { $_.MainWindowTitle -eq 'Your Custom Title' }

There are likely other options also, such as running the process under a specific user account or by targetting a specific PowerShell configuration endpoint and then specifying that when running the PowerShell.exe process via the -ConfigurationEndpoint switch. These require config to be added in advance however, where as modifying the title to something you know will be unique is quite a simple solution.