Check if a process is running from a batch file?
I need a command simmilar to “IF EXIST” to check if a process, such as wmplayer.exe is running. Something like this.
if exist wmplayer.exe (echo proccess running) else (echo proccess not running
Can you think of anything?
**I thought I was close with this, but I can't get it to work.**
IF ”%notepad.exe%”==”” (echo The process is not running) ELSE (echo the program is running)
With it set up like this it always says the process is not running
IF ”%notepad.exe”==”” (echo The process is not running) ELSE (echo the program is running)
With this it aways it running.
Any ideas on how to get it to work? I know I’m really close.
Redirect to NUL after FIND.
Try this
:
@echo off
tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq wmplayer.exe" | find /i "wmplayer.exe" >nul && (
echo Windows Media Player is running
) || (
echo Windows Media Player is not running
)
pause>nul
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Man, you are a genius! THANK YOU SO MUCH! How did you figure it out?
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Hi I'm trying below program, if the exe is running another instance of same exe I don't want to run..so waiting till it completes..
Not sure where the problem in the below code it is not working "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error
*********************************************************
@echo OFF
:LOOP
tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq Test.exe" | find /i "Test.exe"
if errorlevel
(
SLEEP 5
GOTO LOOP
)
else
(
echo print
start "" "C:\Users\Desktop\Test.exe"
)
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kindly suggest
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I got this to work.
@echo off
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq wmplayer.exe" | find /I "wmplayer.exe"
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 ECHO Windows Media Player is running
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO Windows Media Player is not running
pause>nul
But it shows this when the process is running.
wmplayer.exe 13788 Console 1 20,300 K
I tried adding >nul to the tasklist line but then it didn't show anything when the process was running.
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Not as tidy as g-one's but you can use for and test for the message "INFO: No tasks are running which match the specified criteria."...
@echo off
for /f "usebackq" %%Z in (`tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq wmplayer.exe"`) do if %%Z==INFO: goto processnotrunning
echo Windows Media Player is running
exit
:processnotrunning
echo Windows Media Player is not running
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Can you use wildcards using this? like to see if ANY executable process is running? lol]
like this:
for /f "usebackq" %%Z in (`tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq *.exe"`) do if %%Z==INFO:
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REM ---Copy all of this text into a notepad and save it as a batch file
REM ---to see if a program is running
@echo off
:start
set /p runningprocess=Enter a program name to see if it is running:
rem ---- 1: all one line ----
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %runningprocess%" | find /I "%runningprocess%" > nul
rem ---- 1: end of line
IF %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 ECHO Notepad is running
IF %ERRORLEVEL% equ 1 ECHO Notepad is not running
pause>nul
goto start
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Just because I can, here's another answer.
Link.
Up there is a link to a dostips function called IsServiceRunning.
Hope it helps.
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