tasklist

I've been exploring various options, such as the /format flag, however it appears that sorting is only possible in XML or HTML output. I would like to sort within command prompt itself. It seems that even TaskList cannot do this (and I would prefer to use wmic since it seems to perform faster). An example of a command to run would be wmic process get name,processid,workingsetsize . Processes appear to be sorted by processid, but it would make much more sense (in my use case, at least) to sort by name or memory usage ( workingsetsize ). As requested, here's an example wmic process table output:

Desired output: 1234 Just the PID. Nothing else - no other characters, numbers, or symbols. I'm trying to run tasklist so it gives me only the PID of a named or titled process. tasklist | findstr /i "cmd.exe" is the closest I've gotten, but the result is too verbose. I just want the PID number. Bonus points for linking me a description of what the tasklist filter operators mean - "eq", "ne", etc, since they aren't anywhere in the documentation . The difficult thing with tasklist is its default output format. For example, when command line: tasklist /FI "ImageName eq cmd.exe" /FI "Status eq

I am trying to figure out a tasklist command that gives the Description aswell as shown in the Taskmangaer UI?I am trying to run it from python,if it is not posible is there an equivalent python command to get list of all tasks with description? tasklist /? That's a bit trickier than you might imagine and you really need a good reason to go through all the trouble to justify it. First of all, Task Manager UI doesn't get its information from tasklist.exe , although you can get pretty close with: import csv import subprocess try: tl_out = subprocess.check_output(["tasklist", "/fo", "csv", "/v"])

I had to reinstall all my development tools after a hard drive failure and I'm having a problem with Visual Studio. I had a bunch of //TODO: items scattered throughout my projects and I can't get them to show up in my Task List under the User Tasks. I restarted Visual Studio to no effect, then I checked the tokens in the Task List settings and TODO is listed. Any idea on how I can get them to be listed again? I don't remember having to change any settings last time I installed VS to get this to work. By default, TODO comments are only shown in the task list for currently opened files. Visual

I am currently trying to do a validation at the uninstall moment. In a Pascal script function, in Inno Setup, I want to search for a specific processes, with a wild card if possible. Then, loop through all find results, get the Image Name and Image Path Name, in order to check if the program that is about to be uninstalled is the same as the one running. Is there a way to do that? TLama This is an exemplary task for WMI and its WQL language. Getting list of running processes through WMI is even more reliable than Windows API. The below example shows how to query the Win32_Process class with

I ran the following command on the windows command prompt C:>tasklist /fi "Imagename eq BitTorrent.exe" The output of which is Image Name PID Session Name Session # Mem Usage ================== ======== ================= =========== ========= BitTorrent.exe 6164 Console 3 24,144K I need to extract only one field, the PID, i.e. the number 6164 from the above output. How do I achieve this ? More generally, how do I extract a subset(1/more) of the fields from the output of a command on the windows command line ? Similar to previous answers, but uses specific switches in tasklist to skip header