Batch program to to check if process exists

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TASKLIST does not set errorlevel.

echo off
tasklist /fi "imagename eq notepad.exe" |find ":" > nul
if errorlevel 1 taskkill /f /im "notepad.exe"
exit

should do the job, since “:” should appear in TASKLIST output only if the task is NOT found, hence FIND will set the errorlevel to 0 for not found and 1 for found

Nevertheless,

taskkill /f /im “notepad.exe”

will kill a notepad task if it exists – it can do nothing if no notepad task exists, so you don’t really need to test – unless there’s something else you want to do…like perhaps

echo off
tasklist /fi "imagename eq notepad.exe" |find ":" > nul
if errorlevel 1 taskkill /f /im "notepad.exe"&exit

which would appear to do as you ask – kill the notepad process if it exists, then exit – otherwise continue with the batch

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