Powershell matching by two values

Question

I try to get all Processes with starting letter w or s

Something like this:

Get-Process | Where-Object ProcessName -Match "^w.*" -or ProcessName -Match "^s.*" | Select-Object name, ID

but this doesnt work.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65936218/powershell-matching-by-two-values

Answer 1

Since it's either one or the other, in the same position, you can use character class group ([characters]):

Get-Process | Where-Object ProcessName -match '^[ws]' | ...

The .* at the end of either pattern is moot.