How to capture the PID of a process when launching it from command line?

Question

Is there a way to do this purely in a .bat file?

The purpose is to launch iexplore.exe, then kill just that instance when it\'s finished.

Answer 1

PowerShell can be used for this:

powershell -executionPolicy bypass -command "& {$process = start-process $args[0] -passthru -argumentlist $args[1..($args.length-1)]; exit $process.id}" notepad test.txt

echo Process ID of new process: %errorlevel%