I often find myself looking for a few commands I drastically miss from linux in the Windows world. Pretty basic but here they are listed by their equal parts between Linux and Windows Powershell.

Note: Below I reference gc which is an alias for Get-Content. They can be interchanged.

active tail

tail -f file.txt

gc file.txt -Wait

tail last 10

tail -n10 file.txt

gc file.txt | Select -last 10

head first 10

head -n10 file.txt

gc file.txt | select -first 10

grep

grep my.pattern

Select-String -Pattern my.pattern

word count

wc -l file.txt

gc file.txt | Measure-Object -Line

Process Listing

ps

get-process

Kill Process

kill app.exe

get-process app.exe | StopProcess