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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you mean PowerShell, it’s just text scripts that run sorta like programs. I don’t think many scripts are used in Windows or in apps, outside of sysadmin stuff and sometimes app installers, so idk where you’re seeing them.

  However, PowerShell uses the extension ‘ps1’. ‘ps’ is PostScript, which is a page layout format similar to PDF and in fact the precursor to it.

  Neither of these are related to svchost. PowerShell scripts typically run start to end in one go and don’t hang out in the background (tough in theory they can).

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  • vaderaj@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I meant the process command on linux, or ‘PS’ in short. I am not very literate with OS concepts but wouldn’t be bad to explore

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, well, ps is one program that is Unixes’ analog to the task manager. htop shows the same info dynamically and with pretty colors.

      I won’t explain their output here, there are plenty of tutorials and explainers on the web. Just gonna say that in Unixes, background services, including system ones, run under their own names instead of anything like svchost — i.e. a proper separate program starts and keeps in the background, so you can see it in ps or another system monitor. (Although in theory nothing prevents there being an svchost with the same approach as in Windows, but Linux distros don’t provide one for lack of necessity.)

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