After all these years, you'd think I had done some Windows batch files of some type. But you'd be wrong. I am updating a batch file and encountered the following statement:
TASKKILL /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq SIM RH*" /IM perl.exe
Why both the /FI and the /IM? Are the two clauses anded together? If I leave off the /IM, the correct processes get killed.
The only way this makes sense is if they get ended and kill only tasks with that window title AND are perl.exe tasks.
Yes they are added!
/IM would be killing all tasks with different process-IDs
/FI applies a filter to that. You can test that with something like this:
@echo off
for /L %%i in (1,1,5) do start "%%i" cmd.exe
timeout /t 3
taskkill /F /FI "WindowName ne 3" /IM cmd.exe
This should leave you with 1 command-prompt with the title 3. All others will be closed.
Changing the ne to eq would only close the command-prompt with the title 3 leaving you with 1, 2, 4, 5 and yourBatch.bat