Kills the Windows process name - Java java.lang

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Description

Kills the Windows process name

Demo Code


//package com.java2s;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
        String processName = "java2s.com";
        System.out.println(killProcess(processName));
    }//from   w  w  w.j  av a2  s.c om

    /**
     * Kills the Windows process name
     *
     * @param processName The process to kill
     * @return True if it was successful, false otherwise
     */
    static boolean killProcess(String processName) throws Exception {
        if (isProcessRunning(processName)) {
            ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder();
            processBuilder.command("taskkill", "/F", "/IM", processName);
            Process process = processBuilder.start();
            process.waitFor();

            return !isProcessRunning(processName);
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static boolean isProcessRunning(String processName)
            throws IOException {
        ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("tasklist");
        Process process = processBuilder.start();
        String tasksList = toString(process.getInputStream());

        return tasksList.contains(processName);
    }

    private static String toString(InputStream inputStream) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(inputStream, "UTF-8")
                .useDelimiter("\\A");
        String string = scanner.hasNext() ? scanner.next() : "";
        scanner.close();

        return string;
    }
}

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