I know Windows equivalent of "ps aux" is tasklist which works well on my win10

per What is the Windows equivalent of "wc -l"? Windows equivalent of wc -l is find /c /v "".

When I tried combine them together, I got

FIND: Parameter format not correct

how do I use powershell to get the number of processes running on win10?

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(Get-Process).Count

and, as a bonus:

(Get-Process|Select-Object -ExpandProperty Threads).Count

Run it in CMD (as an administrator) as : powershell "(Get-Process|Select-Object -ExpandProperty Threads).Count"

Example output:

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