How to extract a specific field from output of tasklist on the windows command line

Question

I ran the following command on the windows command prompt

C:>tasklist /fi \"Imagename eq BitTorrent.exe\"

The output of which is

Answer 1

the easiest way is with using WMIC:

c:\>wmic process where caption="BitTorrent.exe" get  ProcessId

EDIT: As the WMIC is not part of home editions of windows:

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %A in ('tasklist /fi ^"Imagename eq cmd.exe^" ^| find ^"cmd^"') do echo %B

Here is used CMD of the caption.You can change it in the find and tasklist parameters. If this used in batch file you'll need %%B and %%A