CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1546784
user1546784

Reputation: 135

regular expression or wild card in tasklist

I would like to use regular expression or wild card in tasklist

I have imagename going to be different for every build like AB1adf.exe, AB2dfas.exe, AG3dfas.exe ect

I have tried below but did not work.. 

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq AB%.exe" | find /i "AB%.exe" 
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq AB*.exe" | find /i "AB*.exe"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1474

Answers (2)

npocmaka
npocmaka

Reputation: 57252

find does not support wild cards. You have two options wmic and findstr:

tasklist | findstr /i /r "ab.*exe"

or with wmic and wql (which allows richer expressions) (for batch file you need to double the %):

wmic process where "Caption like 'AB%exe'" get Caption,ProcessId,Commandline /format:value

Upvotes: 0

Alex K.
Alex K.

Reputation: 175766

The extension breaks the wild card:

C:\>tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq chr*.exe"
ERROR: The search filter cannot be recognized.

Lose it:

C:\>tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq chr*"

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
chrome.exe                    4376 Console                    1    313,076 K
chrome.exe                    4384 Console                    1      4,328 K
chrome.exe                    4548 Console                    1     94,260 K

Upvotes: 3

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