My current .bat file is as follows:
#echo off
rem iTunes
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq itunes.exe" /FO CSV > "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForItunes.log"
FOR /F %%A IN (' "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForItunes.log" ') DO IF %%~zA EQU 0 GOTO end
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes"
:end
taskkill /im notepad.exe
del "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForItunes.log
rem WC3 Banlist
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq WC3Banlist.exe" /FO CSV > "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForWC3Blist.log"
FOR /F %%A IN (' "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForWC3Blist.log" ') DO IF %%~zA EQU 0 GOTO end
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\WC3Banlist"
start WC3Banlist.exe
:end
del "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForItunes.log
rem Warcraft3
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq wc3.exe" /FO CSV > "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForWarcraft.log"
FOR /F %%A IN (' "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForWarcraft.log" ') DO IF %%~zA EQU 0 GOTO end
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III"
start war3.exe
:end
exit
My goal was to have something that opened the program only if they were not open already. This works great, but the one problem is that I have to manually close the notepad windows that open to read the For****.log files. Is there any way to make these things automatically close? BTW I am running vista.
Try removing the spaces in the fileset of your FOR statement. For example:
FOR /F %%A IN ("C:/ForStartingStuff/ForWarcraft.log") DO ...
instead of
FOR /F %%A IN (' "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForWarcraft.log" ') DO
Related
I am creating a script to check if my Minecraft server is running or not, but My script never works.
Note: I'm not that good at Bach script coding
I am using Win 10 Pro
I've looked online and found this
echo %~1
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Cave SMP Vanilla 1.19.3" /FO CSV > search.log
FINDSTR Cave SMP Vanilla 1.19.3 search.log > found.log
FOR /F %%A IN (found.log) DO IF %%~zA EQU 0 GOTO end
echo server off
:end
echo server on
del search.log
del found.log
pause
but it just outputs
enter image description here
(The server is currently running)
I expect it to output server is on
I hope someone can help me!
Thanks Alot!!!!!
Please try this.
There is notepad.exe as Image Name instead of your Cave SMP Vanilla 1.19.3. You can try to replace notepad.exe and check if it works for you.
#echo OFF
TASKLIST /FI "IMAGENAME eq notepad.exe" /FO CSV > search.log
FINDSTR /R /C:"notepad.exe" search.log > found.log
FOR /F %%A IN (found.log) DO (
IF %%~zA EQU 0 (
GOTO :end )
)
echo server off
GOTO :end_file
:end
echo server on
:end_file
del search.log
del found.log
pause
I wrote this small script to kill Spotify whenever the title of the window is "Advertisement". For now, it just looks for the spotify.exe process and, if the name of the window matches, kills it (next step is executing it every second). However, I get an error every time I execute it, telling me that there's an unexpected ( in IF /i "%A:~0,4" (, but such statement is not in my code: it seems like Windows modifies IF /i "%%A:~0,4%"=="PID:" ( before executing it.
Here's the script:
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
tasklist /fi "imagename eq spotify.exe" /fo list /v > tmp.txt
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%A IN ("tmp.txt") DO (
SET test=%%A
echo %%A
IF /i "%%A:~0,4%"=="PID:" (
SET "pid=%%A:PID: =%"
echo %pid%
)
IF /i "%%A:~0,13%"=="Window Title:" (
SET "wintitle=%%A:Window Title: =%"
echo %wintitle%
)
IF "%wintitle%"=="Advertisement" (
taskkill /F /PID %pid%
)
)
PAUSE
Error message (with echo on):
C:\Users\marco\Desktop>antispotify.bat
C:\Users\marco\Desktop>tasklist /fi "imagename eq spotify.exe" /fo list /v 1>tmp.txt
( was unexpected at this time.
C:\Users\marco\Desktop> IF /i "%A:~0,4" (
Does anyone know what's wrong with my code?
The task to force a real kill of Spotify process running for advertisement can be done also by using following batch file without using delayed expansion.
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1* delims=:" %%I in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "imagename eq spotify.exe" /FO LIST /V 2^>nul') do (
if /I "%%~I" == "PID" (
for /F %%K in ("%%~J") do set "ProcessIdentifier=%%~K"
) else if /I "%%~I" == "Window Title" (
for /F "tokens=*" %%K in ("%%~J") do if /I "%%~K" == "Advertisement" call %SystemRoot%\System32\taskkill.exe /F /PID %%ProcessIdentifier%%
)
)
endlocal
The same code with using delayed environment variable expansion:
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1* delims=:" %%I in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "imagename eq spotify.exe" /FO LIST /V 2^>nul') do (
if /I "%%~I" == "PID" (
for /F %%K in ("%%~J") do set "ProcessIdentifier=%%~K"
) else if /I "%%~I" == "Window Title" (
for /F "tokens=*" %%K in ("%%~J") do if /I "%%~K" == "Advertisement" %SystemRoot%\System32\taskkill.exe /F /PID !ProcessIdentifier!
)
)
endlocal
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
call /?
echo /?
endlocal /?
for /?
if /?
setlocal /?
taskkill /?
tasklist /?
See also: How does the Windows Command Interpreter (CMD.EXE) parse scripts?
As noted in the comments, substring manipulation doesn't work on for variables (%%a type). Instead, you need an ordinary variable and of course delayed expansion.
But may I suggest another approach:
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
for /f "tokens=2,9 delims=," %%a in ('tasklist /fi "imagename eq notepad.exe" /fo csv /v /nh') do (
set "pid=%%~a"
set "wintitle=%%~b"
)
set pid
set wintitle
IF "%wintitle%"=="Advertisement" taskkill /F /PID %pid%
Here we use the command directly with the for loop instead of using a temporary file. Besides that, we change the output format to csv (easier to parse) with no header line ( /nh)
( I used notepad.exe, because I don't have spotify, but that's easy to adapt)
I've checked other tons of answers related to my issue and none worked. I suppose it's a syntax typo, but I cannot seem to find it.
My script should simply tell me if a process is running, then save the path into a variable, go to that path and delete the .exe.
Unfortunately, I get ECHO is OFF. Any ideas why?
#echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set /p PROGRAM=NAme of the exe:
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %PROGRAM%" 2>NUL | find /I /N "%PROGRAM%">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" echo. %PROGRAM% is running
for %%i in (%PROGRAM%) do (
echo %%~$PATH:i
set PROGRAM_PATH=%%~$PATH:i
)
cd %PROGRAM_PATH%
del /F %PROGRAM_PATH%
pause
So, I realized that my program wasn't doing what I wanted because the .exe didn't exist.
So, I modified a little bit the script, so that I will handle that case:
if the .exe is running, exit because I won't be able to delete a already in use .exe anyway;
otherwise go to its location and delete it.
My final program:
#echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
goto start_program
:start_program
set /p PROGRAM=Name of exe(ex:cmd.exe):
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %PROGRAM%" 2>NUL | find /I /N "%PROGRAM%">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" do (
goto enter_program
)
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" do (
goto exit_program
)
:enter_program
for %%i in (%PROGRAM%) do (
set PROGRAM_PATH=%%~$PATH:i
)
cd %PROGRAM_PATH%
del /f %PROGRAM_PATH%
goto:eof
:exit_program
goto:eof
Thanks for tips Ryan and jeb
The past few days I have been working on a script that I thought would be rather easy but it seems not, and I do understand why. My problem is how to get around it.
The batch script I need explained:
I have a script that runs in cmd.exe that does a bunch of things like moving a huge amount of files from a location to another. Lets call it
movefile.cmd. This script works, but happens to stop sometimes (very rarely - lets not go into why and that script). Its important that this script always runs, so my idea here was to create a batch that exits cmd.exe and then re-opens the script each hour or so. Lets call this script restartcmd.bat
Sounds perfectly easy as I could do this:
#echo off
:loop
start c:\script\movefile.cmd
Timeout /nobreak /t 3600
Taskkill cmd.exe
goto loop
But obviously this doesn't work because my new script also runs in cmd.exe, so it would kill this process as well.
What I've tried:
So I made a copy of cmd.exe and renamed it into dontkillthis.exe. I run dontkillthis.exe and then open the restardcmd.bat from dontkillthis.exe - this works perfectly! But I need to be able to just dobbleclick my script instead of doing that. Why? Because its supposed to be as easy as possible and I want my restartcmd.bat to be in my startup folder.
I've been looking at the ideas of getting the exact process ID of cmd.exe and shutting that so that my dontkillthis.exe will remain, but I can't seem to nail it. Tried all thats written in here how to kill all batch files except the one currently running , but I can't get it to work.
I'm not sure if I'm being confused or if it actually is a bit hard to do this.
I'd really appreciate some help here.
Best Regards
MO
first you'll need the PID of the current CMD instance. The topic has been discussed here . I will offer you my solution - getCmdPID.bat
and here's the script (getCmdPID should in the same directory ):
#echo off
call getCmdPID
set "current_pid=%errorlevel%"
for /f "skip=3 tokens=2 delims= " %%a in ('tasklist /fi "imagename eq cmd.exe"') do (
if "%%a" neq "%current_pid%" (
TASKKILL /PID %%a /f >nul 2>nul
)
)
Normally with the following command I should be able to find the PID. Unfortunately this is not the case.
title exclude &tasklist /NH /v /fo csv /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne exclude*" /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.exe" /FI "STATUS eq running"
So to achieve my goal, I used the following command:
FIND /I "exclude" 1>NUL
#echo off
TITLE exclude
(for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`tasklist /NH /v /fo csv /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.exe" /FI "STATUS eq running"`) do (
(
echo %%a | FIND /I "exclude" 1>NUL
) || (
for /f "usebackq tokens=2 delims=," %%i in (`echo %%a`) do (
echo TASKKILL /PID %%~i /f
)
)
)
)>_output-taskill.txt
TYPE _output-taskill.txt
Another approach to kill all the processes in a single line is to use filters on the command taskkill with filters should look like:
TASKKILL /F /FI "PID ne XXXX" /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.exe" /IM cmd.exe
eq (equal)
ne (not equal)
gt (greater than)
lt (lesser than)
#echo off
TITLE exclude
(for /f "usebackq tokens=2 delims=," %%a in (`tasklist /NH /v /fo csv /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.exe" /FI "STATUS eq running" ^| FIND /I "exclude"`) do (
echo TASKKILL /F /FI "PID ne %%~a" /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.exe" /IM cmd.exe
)
)>_output-taskill.txt
TYPE _output-taskill.txt
I have found a solution that utilizes text files to keep track of all previous PIDs the bat file has had. It attempts to kill them silently and then adds the current PID to the list after.
If you don't want it to kill the old, already existing process, simply replace the line that has "taskkill" with whatever you were wanting to do with it.
(might require you to run as admin in order to have permissions to kill the duplicate process. see permission elevation code below for optional implementation if you don't want to have to run as admin every time.)
#echo off
set WorkingDir=%cd%
if exist MostRecentPID.txt ( del "PIDinfo.txt" /f /q ) > nul
cd ..\..\..\..\..\..\..
title mycmd
tasklist /v /fo csv | findstr /i "mycmd" > %WorkingDir%\PIDinfo.txt
set /p PIDinfo=<%WorkingDir%\PIDinfo.txt
REM below, the 11 means get substring starting a position 11 with length of 5 characters. The tasklist command gives a long and verbose value so this will get just the PID part of the string.
set PID5chars=%PIDinfo:~11,5%
set PID4chars=%PIDinfo:~11,4%
if exist PreviousPIDs.txt (
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (PreviousPIDs.txt) do taskkill.exe /F /T /PID %%A > nul 2>&1
goto CheckIfFourCharPID
)
:CheckIfFourCharPID
if %PID4chars% gtr 8100 (
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (PreviousPIDs.txt) do taskkill.exe /F /T /PID %%A > nul 2>&1
echo %PID4chars% >> "PreviousPIDs.txt"
) else (
echo %PID5chars% >> "PreviousPIDs.txt"
)
Explanation: (warning: very technical)
-This solution gets a substring of the tasklist command to get just the PID. There will not be a PID for cmd.exe that is greater than 18100 so check if PID4chars is greater than 8100 so we know if it's a 4 digit or 5 digit number
case 1: a 5 digit PID like 17504 has a PID5chars val 17504 and a PID4chars val of 1750, so we add PID5chars to the text files of PIDs to kill
case 2: a 4 digit PID like 8205 has a PID5chars val of 8205" and a PID4chars val of 8205, so we add PID4chars to the text files of PIDs to kill
case 3: a 4 digit PID like 4352 has a PID5chars val of 4352" and a PID4chars val of 4352, so we add PID4chars to the text files of PIDs to kill
OPTIONAL PERMISSION ELEVATION CODE
(put this at the top of your bat file and it will auto-run it as admin.)
#echo off
setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
set "batchPath=%~0"
for %%k in (%0) do set batchName=%%~nk
cd ..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..
if exist %cd%\Temp (
set temp=%cd%\Temp
goto vbsGetPrivileges
)
if exist %cd%\Windows\Temp (
set temp=%cd%\Windows\Temp
goto vbsGetPrivileges
)
set temp=%cd%
:vbsGetPrivileges
set "vbsGetPrivileges=%temp%\OEgetPriv_%batchName%.vbs"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
:CheckIfRunningAsAdmin
net session >nul 2>&1
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (
goto gotPrivileges
) else ( goto ElevatePermissions )
:ElevatePermissions
if '%1'=='ELEV' (echo ELEV & shift /1 & goto gotPrivileges)
ECHO Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO args = "ELEV " >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO For Each strArg in WScript.Arguments >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO args = args ^& strArg ^& " " >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO Next >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", args, "", "runas", 1 >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
"%SystemRoot%\System32\WScript.exe" "%vbsGetPrivileges%" %*
exit /B
:gotPrivileges
setlocal & pushd .
cd /d %~dp0
if '%1'=='ELEV' (del "%vbsGetPrivileges%" 1>nul 2>nul & shift /1)
net session >nul 2>&1
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (
goto Continue
) else (
REM unable to elevate permissions so tell user to run file as admin manually
echo Please re-run this file as administrator. Press any key to exit...
pause > nul
goto Exit
)
:Continue
<insert rest of code here>
It would be much better to get the PID of your movefile.cmd. If you can edit it, add a title MyMoveFileProcess and get it's PID with
for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('tasklist /v ^|find "MyMoveFileProcess"') do set PID=%%i
Then you can kill it with taskkill /pid %pid%
Instead of changing your movefile.cmd, you can also just start it with an title:
start "MyMoveFileProcess" c:\script\movefile.cmd
A couple of lines will help you achieve this:
TITLE exclude
taskkill /IM cmd.exe /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne exclude*"
I would like to use a batch file to compare the number of processes named "standard.exe", that are running on my Windows 7 machine, with the number of processes named "basic.exe". If the amount of processes called "standard.exe" equals the amount of processes called "basic.exe" nothing should happen, if the numbers are unequal, basic.exe should be restarted.
Any ideas? Already found the following code to check whether a process is running, but now I would like to count the number of processes carrying the same name.
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq myapp.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "myapp.exe">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" echo Programm is running
Thanks in advance!
Using your example simply replace the /N in find with /C to return the count of processes.
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq myapp.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /C "myapp.exe"
Then you can just reduce it down to :
tasklist | find /I /C "myapp.exe"
Although as Andriy M points out it will match both myapp.exe and notmyapp.exe.
As for the second part of your question, simply do this:
set a=tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq myapp.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /C "myapp.exe"
set b=tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq myapp2.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /C "myapp2.exe"
if not a==b do (
stuff
)
If you don't want to write a file, replace the tasklist and set var1 commands with
for /f "tokens=1,*" %%a in ('tasklist ^| find /I /C "standard.exe"') do set var1=%%a
same for the second ones.
for /f "tokens=1,*" %%a in ('tasklist ^| find /I /C "basic.exe"') do set var2=%%a
There is probably a neater way to do it, but the following code seems to do the trick:
:begin
tasklist | find /I /C "standard.exe">D:\tmpfile1.txt
tasklist | find /I /C "basic.exe">D:\tmpfile2.txt
set /p var1= <D:\tmpfile1.txt
set /p var2= <D:\tmpfile2.txt
if %var1% LSS %var2% goto restart
if %var1% EQU %var2% goto wait
:wait
echo waiting..
ping -n 300 127.0.0.1 > nul
goto begin
:restart
echo error has occured, all processes will be restarted
taskkill /f /im standard.exe
taskkill /f /im basic.exe
ping -n 30 127.0.0.1 > nul
goto begin
Cheers!