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I am working on an assignment for school and i need to create several scripts
and im stuck with a few.
First:
One needs to list the process and the companies who published the program in
descending order of number of processes associated with that company, and
allow the user to choose a company in order to bring up a google search page
about it.

Eg:
1 Microsoft Corporation
3 VMware, Inc.
4 GRISOFT, s.r.o.
6 COMODO
7 Apple Inc.

I use the following command to list the process in order, but i dont know
how to select the actual company it self to display in google.

$comp= Get-Process | select company | sort company -unique | sort count
-Descending
for ($ii=0; $ii -lt $comp.length; $ii++)
{
Write-Host "$ii"$comp[$ii]
}

Second:
List the top 10 processes in terms of CPU time used, showing name and a
graphical representation of the CPU time used, using the * character across
the screen.

Eg:

firefox
..............................................................................................................
services
.................................................
explorer
.............................................
powershell
............................................

Again i have worked out a little bit, but i cant convert the CPU time into
the "*" character. This is the code i am using, but i get an error
Get-Process | sort -Descending cpu | select -First 10 name, cpu |
ForEach-Object { $_.name "*" [int]$_.cpu}

Thanks you for looking taking the time to look at my enquiry. I am open for
any suggestions. Cheers

Does this work for you or you need the exact format you provided:

PS > gps|sort -desc cpu|select -first 10 name,cpu| `
ft name,cpu,@{l="Ticks";e={"*"*$_.cpu}}

Name
CPU Ticks
----
--- -----
naPrdMgr
26.125 **************************
FrameworkService
19.265625 *******************
explorer
15.921875 ****************
svchost
15.921875 ****************
System
15.875 ****************
Mcshield
13.703125 **************
AttensaEngine
9.53125 **********
services
8.6875 *********
vmware-authd
8.09375 ********
VsTskMgr
6.453125 ******

Marco


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Blog:
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Check out this thread from June 4th: "Output choice on google serach
engine" earlier in this same newsgroup.

Marco

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Blog:
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Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | Select-Object -First 10 |
ForEach-Object {
$time = ([int]$_.TotalProcessorTime.TotalSeconds)/10
$stars = "*" * $time

"{0,15} {1,-50}" -f $_.Name, $stars

}

CPU is actually a script property for Totalprocessor time which is a
timespan object
Take the toatl seconds and divide by 10 to give a viewable display

use a formatted string to show the name and the graphical representation
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Richard Siddaway
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"Marco Shaw [MVP]" wrote:

Hi Arda,

For your first assignment:

$procs = gps | group company | sort count -desc -unique | where {$_.name}
write-host "Choose company to display in Google:`n"
for($i=0;$i -lt $procs.length; $i++){"$($i+1)." + $procs[$i].name}
$c = read-host "`nYour choice number"

$url = "http://www.google.co.il/search?q=" + $procs[$c-1].name
$ie = new-object -com internetExplorer.application
$ie.visible=$true
$ie.navigate($url)


For the second, take a look at Kiron's solution, here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&cr=&sloc=&p=1



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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

On Jun 9, 12:50*am, Arda <A...@xxxxxx> wrote:Learning about the format operator makes nice looking output
easier to create
Write-Host ('{0,2}: {1}' -f ++$ii,$comp.company)

Your earlier question about integer validation seems to
indicate you can already get the entry number although
some additional criteria seems needed.

while ($($e=read-host 'Select an entry';
$e -notmatch "^\d+$" -or $e -lt 0 -or $e -gt $comp.count))
{"Sorry invalid entry. Must be between 1 and $($comp.length)"}