Add a -Tree or -Recurse parameter to Stop-Process

When using Stop-Process to terminate a process, a (very) common task is stop the entire tree of this process. To be more precise, ALL times when I need stop some process I need terminate the entire tree.

Currently the easiest way to do it is using taskkill: taskkill /IM "notepad.exe" /T /F obviously it is not a built in PowerShell Core feature. The PSCore command is Stop-Process, but it has not a built in way to kill the tree, then we need some pipeline-fu like here.

Then, by the same reason TaskKill has a /T flag, I propose Stop-Process get a -Tree -Recurse (as suggested by @GeeLaw) parameter. It is a natural addition, and surely it will avoid a lot of errors and extra boilerplate scripting for a so common task.

[GeeLaw]

I think -Recurse aligns better with current terminology (cf. file system provider).

[SteveL-MSFT]

My preference would be -IncludeChildProcesses as it’s descriptive for non-technical folks, but we can alias it to -Recurse