CMD what does im taskkill

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I just read the following command   taskkill  f  im something exe  I read that  f forces the task to close  but what does  im do

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See the doc   it will close all running tasks using the executable file something exe  more or less like linux  killall

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It tells taskkill that the next parameter something exe is an image name  a k a executable name  C   gt taskkill     TASKKILL   S system   U username   P  password                  FI filter    PID processid    IM imagename      T    F   Description      This tool is used to terminate tasks by process id  PID  or image name   Parameter List       S    system           Specifies the remote system to connect to        U     domain  user    Specifies the user context under which the                            command should execute        P     password        Specifies the password for the given user                            context  Prompts for input if omitted        FI   filter           Applies a filter to select a set of tasks                             Allows     to be used  ex  imagename eq acme        PID  processid        Specifies the PID of the process to be terminated                             Use TaskList to get the PID        IM   imagename        Specifies the image name of the process                            to be terminated  Wildcard     can be used                            to specify all tasks or image names        T                     Terminates the specified process and any                            child processes which were started by it        F                     Specifies to forcefully terminate the process es                               Displays this help message

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If you type the executable name and a    switch at the command line  there is typically help information available  Doing so with taskkill    provides the following  for instance   TASKKILL   S system   U username   P  password                  FI filter    PID processid    IM imagename      T    F   Description      This tool is used to terminate tasks by process id  PID  or image name   Parameter List       S    system           Specifies the remote system to connect to        U     domain  user    Specifies the user context under which the                            command should execute        P     password        Specifies the password for the given user                            context  Prompts for input if omitted        FI   filter           Applies a filter to select a set of tasks                             Allows     to be used  ex  imagename eq acme        PID  processid        Specifies the PID of the process to be terminated                             Use TaskList to get the PID        IM   imagename        Specifies the image name of the process                            to be terminated  Wildcard     can be used                            to specify all tasks or image names        T                     Terminates the specified process and any                            child processes which were started by it        F                     Specifies to forcefully terminate the process es                               Displays this help message   Filters      Filter Name   Valid Operators           Valid Value s      -----------   ---------------           -------------------------     STATUS        eq  ne                    RUNNING                                               NOT RESPONDING   UNKNOWN     IMAGENAME     eq  ne                    Image name     PID           eq  ne  gt  lt  ge  le    PID value     SESSION       eq  ne  gt  lt  ge  le    Session number      CPUTIME       eq  ne  gt  lt  ge  le    CPU time in the format                                             of hh mm ss                                              hh - hours                                              mm - minutes  ss - seconds     MEMUSAGE      eq  ne  gt  lt  ge  le    Memory usage in KB     USERNAME      eq  ne                    User name in  domain  user                                             format     MODULES       eq  ne                    DLL name     SERVICES      eq  ne                    Service name     WINDOWTITLE   eq  ne                    Window title      NOTE     ----     1  Wildcard     for  IM switch is accepted only when a filter is applied      2  Termination of remote processes will always be done forcefully   F       3   WINDOWTITLE  and  STATUS  filters are not considered when a remote        machine is specified   Examples      TASKKILL  IM notepad exe     TASKKILL  PID 1230  PID 1241  PID 1253  T     TASKKILL  F  IM cmd exe  T      TASKKILL  F  FI  PID ge 1000   FI  WINDOWTITLE ne untitle       TASKKILL  F  FI  USERNAME eq NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM   IM notepad exe     TASKKILL  S system  U domain username  FI  USERNAME ne NT    IM       TASKKILL  S system  U username  P password  FI  IMAGENAME eq note     You can also find this information  as well as documentation for most of the other command-line utilities  in the Microsoft TechNet Command-Line Reference

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im is  image process name  example  f  im notepad exe is specified to kill image process name  program  notepad exe

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it allows you to kill a task based on the image name like taskkill  im iexplore exe  or taskkill  im notepad exe

[cmd] CMD what does /im (taskkill)?

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