What is the Windows batch equivalent of "fuser -k "?

Question

I have a Unix shell script which will kill any process that is accessing a folder: ``` fuser -k ..\logs\* ``` Is there a Windows batch script equivalent to this? I am aware of TASKKILL but I'm not sure if it will do what I need. Does anyone know if this is possible with Windows shell?

Accepted Answer

Not with built-in tools (there is nothing that can enumerate handles), but you can use the Sysinternals Handle tool to get a list of the PIDs that have open handles on a file. You can then parse the output with `FOR /F` and use `TASKKILL` to end the processes.

Example:

```
for /f "skip=4 tokens=3" %i in ('handle ..\logs\') do taskkill /pid %i
```

`skip=4` skips the copyright information in Handle's output and `tokens=3` picks out the PID from each line of output. The rest are self-explanatory.

What is the Windows batch equivalent of "fuser -k <folder>"?

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