Get-Process $pid should suggest using -Id $pid

The default parameter set for Get-Process accepts -Name by position.

Maybe it’s just me, but I forget this all the time, and expect Get-Process 1234 to work.

I think we can make it work in a reasonable way too. If Name is a positive integer and we do not find a process by that name, search again assuming it was a ProcessId.

Edit: instead of making this work (which might not be a good idea always) - I like the suggestion from @rkeithhill to give a better error message.

[rkeithhill]

Agreed. At the very least, the error message could say Cannont find a process with the name "1234". If 1234 is a process Id, use Get-Process -Id 1234. Of course, you would only use that error message when the Name parameter value is all digits.

[KirkMunro]

Just to add to this, where this particular issue drives me the most is that Stop-Process uses a default parameter set that requires Id rather than name. I always try something like this first:

spps *edge*

Then I sigh, then I re-run the command, explicitly using the -Name parameter.

I would much prefer if this set of commands simply had a consistent rule among them that made ad-hoc use more palatable.