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#198001 - 2010-03-08 04:07 PM how to get taskid from SHELLed script?
Sam_B Sam_B Getting the hang of it Registered: 2005-10-25 Posts: 68 Loc: Bern, Switzerland	Hi folks, I'm in the process of transforming a VBS script to kix. Now I'm stuck at the following VB line: taskId = Shellid( "CMD.EXE /C " & outPath, 7) the taskid is later used in the script to check if the submitted process is still running or not. Any id from you how i can get the process id of the submitted command with KIX?
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#198002 - 2010-03-08 04:31 PM Re: how to get taskid from SHELLed script? [Re: Sam_B]
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	If the shelled task is a script itself then it can send it's own PID back to the parent using INI file or registry value. If the SHELLed task (though you should probably be using RUN) is not a script then the parent script can search the process table for the PID. For an example of how to do this see the EnumProcess() UDF: http://www.kixtart.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=7&Number=83681
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#198003 - 2010-03-08 04:38 PM Re: how to get taskid from SHELLed script? [Re: Richard H.]
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	...though it might be easier to use the Wscript.Shell Exec method instead of KiXtart's built-in SHELL or RUN as this should provide you with the ProcessID as a property. Here is a very simple example: Code: $sCMD="notepad.exe" $oExec = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Exec($sCMD) "Process ID for '"+$sCMD+"' is "+$oExec.ProcessID+@CRLF Edited by Richard H. (2010-03-08 04:43 PM) Edit Reason: Added example
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#198005 - 2010-03-08 04:48 PM Re: how to get taskid from SHELLed script? [Re: Richard H.]
Sam_B Sam_B Getting the hang of it Registered: 2005-10-25 Posts: 68 Loc: Bern, Switzerland	Hi Richard, that's exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks!!
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