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I start a command window with a similar command:
start "DUMMYCOMMANDWINDOW"
I can then close the window using this command:
taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE EQ DUMMY*" /f /t
What I'd like to do, however, is to close the window based on its partial title. Something like this:
taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE EQ *COMMANDWINDOW" /f /t
Is there a way to do that?
Using PowerShell, you can do the following:
Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.MainWindowTitle -like '*commandwindow' } | Stop-Process
Get-Process returns a list of all processes, the Where-Object clause filters it based on the window title, and Stop-Process is similar to taskkill.
-EQ operator! That doesn't work.. Wasted a few hours on the ideocyncracies of Powershell with that! Had to do <title>* syntax with -like. In my case all I wanted was the pId. so wrapped in brackets and used .Id
An * cannot be at the start. Taskkill does not support it. But "COMMANDWINDOW*" should work regardless.
*wildcard character only at the very end of the string.