Thursday, 12 April 2018

windows - How can I recognize a running batch file in task manager?


I run a few batch files as SYSTEM (as services) and they appear as cmd.exe in tasklist. Sometimes I need to terminate one of them but I cannot decide which cmd.exe to terminate.


Plus; I run many batch files as scheduled tasks, all appear as cmd.exe (with my account)


How can I mark a batch file, so I can recognize it at task manager?



Answer



open Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, and select View->Select Columns.... Turn the checkbox Command Line on. Now Task Manager will show you, for each cmd.exe, what it is running. For a batch file this looks like


cmd /c ""C:\path\to\test.bat""

For your question on making sure only a single instane can run, this rather dirty trick works:


@echo off

tasklist /v | find /I /c "MyUniqueTitle" > nul
if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto ErrorAlreadyRunning

title MyUniqueTitle
echo "Running as Single Instance!"
goto end


:ErrorAlreadyRunning
echo "ErrorAlreadyRunning"

:end
pause

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