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How to find the process id that is running my Java Application

I know it's quite basic question but still I am not clear about it. When I am running my jar file in background in windows using below command using bat file:

start javaw -jar myApp.jar

It start the application in background but is there any way to check if it's running or how would i kill it if I want to.

In Linux We can do ps -ef| grep JarName and then we can call kill command.How to do the same in windows. tasklist command shows java.exe instead of jar name.

Regards,

Solution

  • You could use jps to view current Java processes, then pass the output to taskkill. Call this script with the full package.Classname of the process to kill:

    rem Run as killpid.cmd package.Classname 
@echo off
jps -l |findstr %1 > %TEMP%\pid.txt

echo FOUND:
type %TEMP%\pid.txt

for /f %%i in (%TEMP%\pid.txt) do taskkill /pid %%i