How can I kill a program that might not exist from Perl on Win32?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to make Perl kill all firefox.exe processes on Win32, and not give an error if no process exists. I\'m currently using:

system(\'taskk         


        

Answer 1

without calling taskkill, you can use Perl modules, eg Win32::Process::List, win32::Process::Kill

See also perldoc -f kill

Answer 2

If you want to suppress all output including errors, try this:

system('taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe >nul 2>&1');

You can see more information about command redirection and pipes here:

http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-redirection.html

Answer 3

`taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe 2>&1`