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Winston Chen
Winston Chen

Reputation: 6879

How can we stop a running java process through Windows cmd?

I am a newbie in cmd, so please allow me to ask a stupid question: How can we stop a running Java process through Windows cmd?

For example, if we start Jetty (a mini web server) with the following command:

start javaw -jar start.jar

How do we find the process and stop it later?

Obviously the following command does not work:

stop javaw -jar start.jar

Upvotes: 46

Views: 251019

Answers (11)

sarath
sarath

Reputation: 893

This command can run from Windows Command Prompt

Kill a Java Process with PID

netstat -ano | findstr :java
taskkill /PID <ProcessID_From_Previous_Command> /F

Upvotes: -3

Stephen C
Stephen C

Reputation: 718708

It is rather messy but you need to do something like the following:

START "do something window" dir
FOR /F "tokens=2" %I in ('TASKLIST /NH /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq do something window"' ) DO SET PID=%I
ECHO %PID%
TASKKILL /PID %PID%

Found this on this page. (archived)

(This kind of thing is much easier if you have a UNIX / LINUX system ... or if you run Cygwin or similar on Windows.)

Upvotes: 13

tk_
tk_

Reputation: 17318

Open the windows cmd. First list all the java processes,

jps -m

now get the name and run below command,

for /f "tokens=1" %i in ('jps -m ^| find "Name_of_the_process"') do ( taskkill /F /PID %i )

or simply kill the process ID

taskkill /F /PID <ProcessID>

sample :)

C:\Users\tk>jps -m
15176 MessagingMain
18072 SoapUI-5.4.0.exe
15164 Jps -m
3420 org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.201.v20161025-1711.jar -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -showsplash -launcher C:\Users\tk\eclipse\jee-neon\eclipse\eclipse.exe -name Eclipse --launcher.library C:\Users\tk\.p2\pool\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.401.v20161122-1740\eclipse_1617.dll -startup C:\Users\tk\eclipse\jee-neon\eclipse\\plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.201.v20161025-1711.jar --launcher.appendVmargs -exitdata 4b20_d0 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -vm C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_131/bin/javaw.exe -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8 -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8 -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -Declipse.p2.max.threads=10 -Doomph.update.url=http://download.eclipse.org/oomph/updates/milestone/latest -Doomph.redirection.index.redirection=index:/->http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/ -jar C:\Users\tk\

and

C:\Users\tk>for /f "tokens=1" %i in ('jps -m ^| find "MessagingMain"') do ( taskkill /F /PID %i )

C:\Users\tk>(taskkill /F /PID 15176  )
SUCCESS: The process with PID 15176 has been terminated.

or 

C:\Users\tk>taskkill /F /PID 15176 
SUCCESS: The process with PID 15176 has been terminated.

Upvotes: 24

FloPinguin
FloPinguin

Reputation: 379

The answer which suggests something like taskkill /f /im java.exe will probably work, but if you want to kill only one java process instead of all, I can suggest doing it with the help of window titles. Expample:

Start

start "MyProgram" "C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_201/bin/java.exe" -jar MyProgram.jar

Stop

taskkill /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq MyProgram" /T

Upvotes: 6

St&#233;phane GRILLON
St&#233;phane GRILLON

Reputation: 11864

(on Windows OS without Service) Spring Boot start/stop sample.

run.bat

@ECHO OFF
IF "%1"=="start" (
    ECHO start your app name
    start "yourappname" java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=prod yourappname-0.0.1.jar
) ELSE IF "%1"=="stop" (
    ECHO stop your app name
    TASKKILL /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq yourappname"
) ELSE (
    ECHO please, use "run.bat start" or "run.bat stop"
)
pause

start.bat

@ECHO OFF
call run.bat start

stop.bat:

@ECHO OFF
call run.bat stop

Upvotes: 0

vneste
vneste

Reputation: 19

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN ('jps -l') DO IF %%H==name.for.the.application.main.Class taskkill /F /PID %%G

name.for.the.application.main.Class - replace this to your application's main class (you can find it in second column of jps -l output)

Upvotes: 1

Vinaykumar Patel
Vinaykumar Patel

Reputation: 884

In case you want to kill not all java processes but specif jars running. It will work for multiple jars as well. 

wmic Path win32_process Where "CommandLine Like '%YourJarName.jar%'" Call Terminate

Else taskkill /im java.exe will work to kill all java processes

Upvotes: 8

Rosberg Linhares
Rosberg Linhares

Reputation: 3687

You can do this with PowerShell:

$process = Start-Process "javaw" "-jar start.jar" -PassThru
taskkill /pid $process.Id

The taskkill command will graceful close the application.

Upvotes: 0

rojo
rojo

Reputation: 24466

I like this one.

wmic process where "name like '%java%'" delete

You can actually kill a process on a remote machine the same way.

wmic /node:computername /user:adminuser /password:password process where "name like '%java%'" delete

wmic is awesome!

Upvotes: 33

Tup
Tup

Reputation: 691

When I ran taskkill to stop the javaw.exe process it would say it had terminated but remained running. The jqs process (java qucikstart) needs to be stopped also. Running this batch file took care of the issue.

taskkill /f /im jqs.exe
taskkill /f /im javaw.exe
taskkill /f /im java.exe

Upvotes: 69

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354366

Normally I don't have that many Java processes open so

taskkill /im javaw.exe

or

taskkill /im java.exe

should suffice. This will kill all instances of Java, though.

Upvotes: 17

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