Process ids

Is it possible to get the process id of a program that you have just run in
a bat file?

--
Steve

If only one instance of that program is running, the following bat file
could prove useful to you to determine the PID of that process:

---
@echo off
set PID=
for /F "tokens=2 delims=," %%A in ('tasklist /nh /fo csv /fi "imagename eq
notepad.exe"') do set PID=%%A
echo pid=%PID%
---

Note that "for...do set PID=%%A" is in the same line (the post may
wrap-around). Replace notepad.exe with the executable name of the program
for which you want to find the process id.

- Chirag

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"Steve Rainbird" <> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to get the process id of a program that you have just run
> in a bat file?
>
> --
> Steve

"Chirag" <> wrote in message
news:393DE370-70F0-4D0A-948E-...
> If only one instance of that program is running, the following bat file
> could prove useful to you to determine the PID of that process:
>
> ---
> @echo off
> set PID=
> for /F "tokens=2 delims=," %%A in ('tasklist /nh /fo csv /fi "imagename eq
> notepad.exe"') do set PID=%%A
> echo pid=%PID%
> ---
>
> Note that "for...do set PID=%%A" is in the same line (the post may
> wrap-around). Replace notepad.exe with the executable name of the program
> for which you want to find the process id.
>
> - Chirag
>
> PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
> http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
>
> "Steve Rainbird" <> wrote in
> message news:...
>> Is it possible to get the process id of a program that you have just run
>> in a bat file?
>>
>> --
>> Steve
>

Chirag,

Thanks for that but the reason I want to know the pid is that there may be
many running.

I want the program to create a print file which contains its pid so that the
script can then print that file after it has finished.

--
Steve