How to tell if a process is running via batch or script file?

Question

How can I tell if a specific process is running using a batch file?

For example, How can I tell if notepad.exe is running?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '16 at 06:43

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Consider the following proposal (run in your batch file):

tasklist | findstr /R ^notepad.exe

Simple, but works!

tasklist /?

Will show you a lot of great options for filtering and managing your output.

findstr /?

Will also show you a great set of options to search and filter the output of tasklist

I hope this helps.

answered Dec 11 '16 at 06:43

Eldad Assis

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Thank you! Great answer, just one problem: the execution time for this takes 10+ seconds! Is there and way to do this in a shorter time? – cascading-style Dec 11 '16 at 06:50
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Do you have a lot of processes running? It's running very fast for me... – Eldad Assis Dec 11 '16 at 07:39
Yes I tend to have quite a few processes running at a time. – cascading-style Dec 11 '16 at 22:54
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That might be the cause. I've seen cases where `tasklist` was slow. I don't have a solution for this. Sorry... – Eldad Assis Dec 12 '16 at 12:27

Ranadip Dutta · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-11T07:06:25.973

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Powershell has an in-built function. Get-Process Get-Process will tell you about all the processes. If you wish to filter with a particular one then use :

Get-Process|?{$_.Name -eq 'Notepad'}

Screenshots are for reference:

Type Powershell in cmd prompt:

Run the above query. If the notepad is running. It will show you:

Hope it helps...

edited Dec 11 '16 at 07:06

answered Dec 11 '16 at 06:49

Ranadip Dutta

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type first powershell in cmd prompt. Then run the above command what I pasted. If you directly using cmd prompt then the pipeline wont work because the values which are passed after the pipe as inputs are powershell cmdlets. Thats why it is not returning anything. – Ranadip Dutta Dec 11 '16 at 06:59

Hackoo · Answer 3 · 2016-12-11T10:31:47.583

You can do something like this in batch file :

This one is inspired from Check if a process is running or not?

@echo off
Title Check for running process . . .
mode con cols=50 lines=3
set "MyProcess=notepad.exe"
set delay=5
:Main
cls
Tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %MyProcess%" | find /I "%MyProcess%">nul && (
    echo( & Color 9A
    echo         PROCESS "%MyProcess%" IS RUNNING !
)||(
    echo( & Color 4C
    echo        PROCESS "%MyProcess%" IS NOT RUNNING !
)
Timeout /T %delay% /nobreak>nul
Goto Main

How to tell if a process is running via batch or script file?

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