Question

Is there a way to emulate the unix cut command on windows XP, without resorting to cygwin or other non-standard windows capabilities?

Example: Use tasklist /v, find the specific task by the window title, then extract the PID from that list to pass to taskkill.

Answer 1

FYI, tasklist and taskkill already have filtering capabilities:

tasklist /FI 'imagename eq chrome.exe' taskkill /F /FI 'imagename eq iexplore.exe' 

If you want more general functionality, batch scripts (ugh) can help. For example:

for /f 'tokens=1,2 delims= ' %%i in ('tasklist /v') do (   if '%%i' == '%~1' (     echo TASKKILL /PID %%j   ) ) 

There’s a fair amount of help for the windows command-line. Type ‘help’ to get a list of commands with a simple summary then type ‘help ‘ for more information about that command (e.g. ‘help for’).