{"id":73651,"date":"2015-08-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/30\/powertip-retrieve-last-token-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:25","slug":"powertip-retrieve-last-token-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-retrieve-last-token-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Retrieve Last Token with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the last token and avoid retyping.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, I used Get-Process<\/b> to view a process I launched, and later I wanted to stop the process. How can I do this without
           doing a lot of typing or creating new variables?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, The $$ <\/b>automatic variable contains the last token submitted, so do the following:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> notepad<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> gps $$<\/p>\n

Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)    WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)   Id ProcessName<\/p>\n

——-     ——    —–      —–   —–   ——        —         ———–<\/p>\n

    116       9     1728       7396 …67     0.06     4668             notepad<\/p>\n

At this point, Notepad is still the last token, so you can view it directly, and use it to stop the process:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $$<\/p>\n

notepad<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Stop-Process -Name $$<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the last token and avoid retyping.  I used Get-Process to view a process I launched, and later I wanted to stop the process. How can I do this without            doing a lot of typing or creating new variables?  The $$ automatic variable contains the last […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}