killing windows process 1

[ranadhir]

Is there a way to get the handle of a windows process by name(e.g. IEXPLORE.exe) ,and kill it from a perl script.
We execute a windows application from a perl script.If the execution time of the application exceeds a particular interval,we need to forcefully kill it.

 

[raklet]

Windows has always been weak in this area, but they introduced a new program called taskkill in Windows XP. You could execute it with a system call from a perl script.

c:\>taskkill /? # get all the details on usage

Or I would recommend using a third party command line app.

This freeware app looks very good:

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm

I have also used pslist to get the name of a process and pskill to terminate. It works good as well.

http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/pstools.html

 

[Kirsle]

Or use Win32:rocess::Info

my $pi = new Win32::Process::Info;

my @info = $pi->GetProcInfo;

foreach (@info) {
   # close all programs named aim.exe
   if ($_->{Name} eq 'aim.exe') {
      my $i = kill (1, $_->{ProcessId}) or die "Can't kill: $!";
      print "$i processes killed\n";
   }
}

 

[PaulTEG]

in conjuction with raklet's taskkill approach, you can also use tasklist to get a list of processes and their pid's.

Having said that Kirsle's approach is much cleaner ...

Paul
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