I ran the following command on the windows command prompt
C:>tasklist /fi "Imagename eq BitTorrent.exe"
The output of which is
Image Name PID Session Name Session # Mem Usage
================== ======== ================= =========== =========
BitTorrent.exe 6164 Console 3 24,144K
I need to extract only one field, the PID, i.e. the number 6164 from the above output.
How do I achieve this ? More generally, how do I extract a subset(1/more) of the fields from the output of a command on the windows command line ?
Similar to previous answers, but uses specific switches in tasklist
to skip header and behave correctly irrespective of spaces in image names:
for /f "tokens=2 delims=," %F in ('tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq BitTorrent.exe" /fo csv') do @echo %~F
(as run directly from cmd line, if run from batch replace %F
with %%F