I'm trying to write a Windows command file to open a webpage in IE, wait for it to load, then close the IE window. The following works but will kill all IE windows so any that were already open before running the .cmd will also get closed.
start iexplore.exe "page to load"
ping localhost -n 10 > nul
taskkill /IM iexplore.exe
I only want to kill the IE that was opened. I know I can just kill a particular process if I know its PID but how can find this from the command line? Is there a way to get it when starting the IE window? What I really want to do is:
start iexplore.exe "page to load"
ping localhost -n 10 > nul
taskkill /PID ?
where ? is the PID of the IE that gets opened but how can I get this? This needs to run as a .cmd file without any input from a user.
IE already supports automation, there is no point in finding and killing the correct process:
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.visible=true
IE.navigate "http://stackoverflow.com/"
while IE.Busy
WScript.Sleep 555
wend
IE.Quit
Save as .vbs (And run with wscript.exe from parent program/batch file)
use vbscript
Set objFS=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strProcess = objArgs(0) 'argument, which is the process name
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
' call WMI service Win32_Process
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '"&strProcess&"'")
t=0
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
' do some fine tuning on the process creation date to get rid of "." and "+"
s = Replace( objProcess.CreationDate ,".","")
s = Replace( objProcess.CreationDate ,"+","")
' Find the greatest value of creation date
If s > t Then
t=s
strLatestPid = objProcess.ProcessID
End If
Next
WScript.Echo "latest: " & t , strLatestPid
'Call WMI to terminate the process using the found process id above
Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process where ProcessId =" & strLatestPid)
For Each objProcess in colProcess
objProcess.Terminate()
Next
usage:
c:\test>cscript //nologo kill.vbs "iexplore.exe"