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Closing a command prompt in powershell

I have a powershell script, which opens up many cmd.exe processes, having different titles. I wish to close only one of these processes. I cannot use

Get-Process cmd | Stop-Process

as all the processes shut down. Is there a way to set the process ID for each process, so I can identify it later and shut it down? Or is there any other way to identify the process by its title name?

Solution

  • Store the information about a process in a variable. Later you can stop the process with those informations

    $XYProcess = Start-Process "cmd.exe" -PassThru

Stop-Process $XYProcess.ID