How can you search for a process by its name or part of its name in an operating system?

To search for a process by name or part of a name in an operating system, various tools and commands can be used depending on the OS.

For example, in Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS), you can use the ps command along with grep:

ps aux | grep process_name

This will display a list of processes that contain the specified name.

In Windows, you can use PowerShell:

Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.ProcessName -like "*name*" }

For automation in scripts or tests, you can use the corresponding APIs:

• In Python, using the psutil module:

import psutil

for proc in psutil.process_iter(['name']):
    if 'name' in proc.info['name']:
        print(proc.pid, proc.info['name'])

Thus, process searching boils down to iterating over all processes and filtering by name.