Kill a process with a specific “Command Line” from command line

Question

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Is there a command line utility that kills all processes with a specific command line? E.g. kill all processes named "java.exe" with a command line that contains "-jar selenium-server.jar". This is possible through process explorer.

Answer 1

In Windows XP, you can do this easyly uing WMIC, the WMI Console. From a command propt, type the following:

wmic Path win32_process Where "CommandLine Like '%-jar selenium-server.jar%'" Call Terminate

Edit:

I replaced the alias 'process' by it full path ('*path win32_process*') as is Aviator's port. This alias may not be declared on every OS.

Answer 2

If you are using a Windows version which has WMIC command in it. You can try this

wmic path win32_process Where "Caption Like '%java.exe%' AND CommandLine Like '%selenium.jar%'" get ProcessId|more +1

The more +1 removes first line containing the header and prints the PID alone. If there are more than one java process containing selenium.jar then this will return one PID per line.

Answer 3

I believe you could do this with PowerShell using Get-Process and the StartInfo.Arguments on the process you want.

$procs = Get-Process java
foreach($proc in $procs) 
{
    if($proc.StartInfo.Arguments -contains "-jar selenium-server.jar")
    {
        kill $proc
    }
}

(I haven't tested that completely, but you should be able to tweak it to make it work)

Answer 4

PsKill:

pskill java.exe