How to "pick up" in a variable the pathname of a .exe background process?

[marcorocchini]

Hi cats,

please consider that I launch a program .exe in a directory, for example c:\myprogram\cat.exe

I like do a batch that do this:

if exist a process in background called cat.exe ---> insert in a variable %var% the fullname and path of cat.exe

In my example %var% = c:\myprogram\cat.exe

but if - for example - I move cat.exe in e:\myprograms4 (so it become e:\myprograms4\cat.exe) the batch have

to pick up the new pathname so that %var% = e:\myprograms4\cat.exe

And if there are present 2 cat.exe processes ---> the batch have to pause and return a error ("Error: there are more of 1 cat.exe process detected!" --> and close all the batch)

How can I do? thanks

[Budman1]

Its a lot harder than you think, at least for DOS CLI method. You can get the pathsof all that are running by using such as:

wmic process where "name='cat.exe'" get ExecutablePath /FORMAT:LIST

You can further put these in a text file by using:

wmic process where "name='cat.exe'" get ExecutablePath /FORMAT:LIST > "list.txt"

Count the lines like so:

findstr /R /N "^" List.txt | find /C ":"

Now if there are more than 1 line, the easiest would just be a call to 'taskkill' all the processes at once:

Taskkill /IM cat.exe /F
SUCCESS: The process "cat.exe" with PID 7472 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "cat.exe" with PID 6352 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "cat.exe" with PID 10144 has been terminated.

http://tweaks.com/windows/39559/kill-processes-from-command-prompt/

The other method is to have an exe written to do specifically what you wish. Either way is not that quick or easy but it can be done

[marcorocchini]

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mmm nice!! it works, thankss