I have a working TASKKILL command that kills python.exe using Process Name
I'd like to narrow the scope of the command to kill a specific process (myScript.py) but can't use ProcessID as it changes with every run.
Is there a way I can add detail from the Command Line which knows the python script's name?
Current Command:
Taskkill /IM python.exe /F >nul 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (echo PYTHON.exe NOT FOUND) else (echo PYTHON.exe KILLED)
You might be able to kill it based on your Python script's memory usage. In my case, the Python script is running a GUI, so the size gives it away.
taskkill /f /fi "IMAGENAME eq python.exe" /fi "MEMUSAGE gt 130000"
This reads as, forcefully kill the task (taskkill /f) identified by (/fi) the Python executable (IMAGENAME eq python.exe) which is using more than 130,000KB (MEMUSAGE gt 130000)1.
1 See taskkill /? for builtin help.
N.B. You might find this SO post helpful: Find Windows PID of a python script with Windows Command Prompt. Unfortunately, for me, It Doesn't Work™ but maybe you will have better luck.
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I'm working on a batch file that is supposed to START a process (CMD) and then it should kill the process after finished. Problem is, that Imagename is cmd.exe and the other problem is that it should be running on Jenkins.
This is what I have tested:
Getting PID with wmic using name of window to find process -> Failed at Jenkins
Taskkill by naming the window-> Failed because Jenkins does not
display windows due to security issues.
Taskkill by imagename -> Failed because there are other cmd processes
running at the same time
Taskkill with pid but pid from the last cmd started. -Works but it is
not very safe.
I couldn´t understand how wmic works but as I see, I cannot start a process with a command like with START command.
Conditions:
It can't be kill after some time because I need the output from the
mergetool and sometimes mergetool can take too long.
It should run at same time with other (cmd) processes // Jenkins
My question, is there a way of getting the PID from the START Command?
Here are some questions that helped me a lot!
Windows batch file : PID of last process?
Compare number of a specific process to a number
CODE:
set "console_name=cmd.exe"
set "git_command=%gitcmd% mergetool ^>output.txt"
tasklist /FI "imagename eq %console_name%" /NH /FO csv > task-before.txt
START "mergetool_w" CMD /c %git_command%
tasklist /FI "imagename eq %console_name%" /NH /FO csv > task-after.txt
for /f "delims=, tokens=2,*" %%A in ('fc /L /LB1 task-before.txt task-after.txt') do set pid=%%A
pid=!pid:"=!
echo pid is %pid%
TASKKILL /t /pid %pid% /f
You could actually use findstr for checking what tasks have been added after your start command line, relying on your files task-before.txt and task-after.txt:
findstr /LXVG:task-before.txt task-after.txt
Due to a nasty bug, this might under some circumstances lead to an unexpected output. To prevent that, add the /I option, if you can live with case-insensitive searches:
findstr /ILXVG:task-before.txt task-after.txt
Yes it's very possible. I'm going to take code from my previous awnser on another post here: Stop Execution of Batch File after 20 Seconds and move to Next
I want to first assume "mergetool_w" is the name of the CMD you are opining with the start...
The way you want to go about this is to search the tasklist for your console title and extract the PID# out of the context. The find suffix can be used to "Filter" the results along with tokens=2 to extract only the PID#.
FOR /F "tokens=2" %%# in ('tasklist /v ^| find "mergetool_w"') do set PID=%%#
From there, you can now kill this new window using the taskkill /pid command. The PID# is stored in the string %PID% so the command is simple:
taskkill /pid %PID% /t /f
Finaly, it looks as if you are trying to "Log" the data so feel free to put > text-task.txt where it's needed.
I start a program from a scilab script via the command line, start myprog.exe.
After the start my scilab script needs to keep going.
Now I want to stop exactly this instance of the process via the command line too, even if several instances of the same program are running.
Is that possible?
I know how to query via batch files whether a process of this program is running and then stop it, but I don't know how to get the exact allocation.
Is there something like a process id?
I use this to check if the process is running:
tasklist /fi "imagename eq ccx.exe" |find ":" > nul
if errorlevel 1 echo Program is running
if not errorlevel 1 echo Program is not running
Use the command tasklist to view all running tasks with their PID
then
Taskkill /PID 26356 /F
or
Taskkill /IM myprog.exe /F
How can you run a batch file which taskkills all other cmd.exes which are currently running, except for the one that is doing the task kill command?
Combining these 2 threads:
how to get PID from command line filtered by username and imagename
how to get own process pid from the command prompt in windows
you can write down something like this in a simple cmd file (akillfile.cmd)
title=dontkillme
FOR /F "tokens=2 delims= " %%A IN ('TASKLIST /FI ^"WINDOWTITLE eq dontkillme^" /NH') DO SET tid=%%A
echo %tid%
taskkill /F /IM cmd.exe /FI ^"PID ne %tid%^"
copy cmd.exe, rename it to a.exe, then use this command in a batch file: start a.exe /k taskkill /f /im cmd.exe
This worked for me, added to the very beginning of the .bat which is to kill all previously launched instances of itself, then immediately make itself susceptible to be killed by subsequent calls of the same .bat file:
title NewlyLaunchedThing
taskkill /F /IM cmd.exe /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne NewlyLaunchedThing"
title Thing
...do everything else
Note that, apparently, the "title" is a keyword, which sets a variable named "WINDOWTITLE".
Also, the "=" (equals sign) is apparently optional for assigning title/WINDOWTITLE. Meaning, this works as well, and may be preferred for clarity:
title = newTitle
I have a .cmd file which I call to open multiple instances of Command Prompt via:
launcher.cmd -fs
launcher.cmd -tds
launcher.cmd -fsd
Each command open a new command prompt.
So what I want to do is create a batch file to automatically close all the opened Command Prompt instead of manually doing it.
Be carefull: you might kill more processes than you want:
taskkill /IM cmd.exe
You can add extra filters:
taskkill /IM cmd.exe /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq launcher*"
use
tasklist /FI "imagename eq cmd.exe " /V
to get a glimpse of what cmd.exe processes will be taskkill-ed
You could add the /F parameter to force the process to close but I would only use that if the process doesn't respond to a normal request.
Just a little note why accepted answer from Rene may not work. I was starting my apps from cmd file like
start "" my.exe -my -args
where my.exe was a console app and it was looking like cmd window I wanted to kill, but process name was not cmd.exe (!) and I had to use command like
taskkill /IM my.exe
So in some cases it worth to check the real process name, for example in the windows task manager.
TASKKILL /F /IM cmd.exe /T
good solution
I need to kill a windows process (java.exe). I'm currently using:
taskkill.exe /F /IM java.exe
I need to use the /F option since is a critical process,but in this way I get a return code 1 instead I need a return code 0 (returned when I don't use /F for killing other not critical processes)
how could I fix this problem?
Many thanks
You can try with :
TASKKILL /F /IM "notepad.exe"
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Why don't you use PowerShell?
Stop-Process -Name java.exe
From the old command prompt:
powershell -Command "Stop-Process -Name java.exe"
I am using following command on Windows Server 2008R2
Taskkill /IM B2B_Crawler_V2.exe /F
Refer Taskkill and Killing a process in Batch and reporting on success
Execute this in CMD
Get the list of open processes
netstat -a -o -n
And then kill the process on that port with the following command
taskkill /F /PID <pid>