Killing a process in cmd or shell using a script

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How to implement using a shell or command line script in Windows that checks for the status of some process, ie. Tomcat server and if it exists, it kills it?

Accepted Answer

On window you can make a `.bat` file with this content:

```
TASKKILL /F /IM "program_name.exe"
```

replace program_name with the program you want to kill. Here's a decent article on `TASKKILL`

Or if it's just tomcat you can run `shutdown.bat`... if `TOMCAT_HOME` isn't set just run it from the tomcat home directory.

Killing a process in cmd or shell using a script

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