Command Detail - K

kill

The equivalent of bash's kill is:

stop-process

A typical usage in Powershell might be:

# find the process
get-process | select id, ProcessName | where {$_.processname -like 'iex*'}

# kill the process
stop-process 5240

There is a built in alias kill which translates to stop-process

get-alias k*

CommandType     Name
-----------     ----
Alias           kill -> Stop-Process