Equivalent of ps -A | grep -c process in Windows?

Question

I am looking for an equivalent/alternative of Linux's ps -A | grep -c script.php for ms windows ?

cheers, /Marcin

Solution 1

Simple commands:

tasklist | FIND "script.php"

Solution 2

An alternative solution to the accepted answer

tasklist /fi "Imagename eq script*"

In case you need this in a loop

for /l %x in (1, 0, 2) do (timeout /t 2 | tasklist /fi "Imagename eq script*")

Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491010.aspx

Comments

[Mat]

gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/summary.html - you can run exactly that on Windows.

[Marcin]

can I pipe it through the PHP ? i.e. system() ?

[phuclv]

piping tasklist into other programs to grep should be avoided, just like in Linux you should use pgrep -l proc instead of ps -A | grep proc because it's shorter, faster (because only 1 process is spawned) and more correct (because it avoids race condition)

[Abhijit Sarkar]

@LưuVĩnhPhúc You said what he shouldn't use, but not what he should use. Care to show that as well for completeness?

[Abhijit Sarkar]

@LưuVĩnhPhúc I did, but you hadn't referred to it before, so there was no link between your comment and his answer. Besides, his isn't the accepted answer.

[phuclv]

@AbhijitSarkar being accepted just mean that it helps the OP. It doesn't mean that it's the best way. As I said you shouldn't pipe tasklist output due to the above issues, the other answer fits the criteria and there's no reason mentioning it again in my comment

[mwfearnley]

This answer is neater than the accepted one. /fi also supports querying by windowtitle. The Wildcard only seems to work as a suffix, but if more control is needed, it's still ultimately possible to pipe to find as above. You can also use /fo to format as CSV, which would be useful for processing in Powershell.