Find Process Name by its Process ID

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Suppose I know the process ID   I want to find the process name by its ID  using windows batch script   How can I do this

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ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET  a pid 1600 FOR  f  skip 3delims     a IN   tasklist   DO    SET  found   a   SET  a foundpid  found  26 8   IF  pid    foundpid  echo found  pid   found  0 24      GOTO  EOF      set PID to suit your circumstance

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Using only  native  Windows utilities  try the following  where  516  is the process ID that you want the image name for   for  f  delims     a in    tasklist  fi  PID eq 516   nh  fo csv    do   echo   a   for  f  a in    tasklist  fi  PID eq 516     findstr  516     do   echo  a     Or you could use wmic  the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line tool  and get the full path to the executable   wmic process where processId 516 get name wmic process where processId 516 get ExecutablePath   Or you could download Microsoft PsTools  or specifically download just the pslist utility  and use PsList       for  f  a in    pslist 516    findstr  516     do   echo  a

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The basic one  ask tasklist to filter its output and only show the indicated process id information  tasklist  fi  pid eq 4444     To only get the process name  the line must be splitted  for  f  delims      a in        tasklist  fi  pid eq 4444   nh  fo csv    do echo    a   In this case  the list of processes is retrieved without headers   nh  in csv format   fo csv   The commas are used as token delimiters and the first token in the line is the image name  note  In some windows versions  one of them  my case  is the spanish windows xp version   the pid filter in the tasklist does not work  In this case  the filter over the list of processes must be done out of the command  for  f  delims      a in        tasklist  fo csv  nh    findstr  b  r  c          4444        do echo    a   This will generate the task list and filter it searching for the process id in the second column of the csv output   edited  alternatively  you can suppose what has been made by the team that translated the OS to spanish  I don t know what can happen in other locales   tasklist  fi  idp eq 4444

[windows] Find Process Name by its Process ID

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