From: Lars <larsch@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T00:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Kill Process by it's name

Agustin Ramos wrote:
> Hi everybody, i'm working on Microsoft Windows XP, and i want to make a
> program to kill windows process by the name of the process, not by the PID,
> like EXCEL.EXE to kill microsoft excel or IEXPLORE.EXE to kill Internet
> Explorer.
> At this moment, i'm using this code:
>
> mgmt = WIN32OLE.connect('winmgmts:\\\\.')
>   mgmt.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name =
> '#{proc_name}'").each{ |item|
>     item.Terminate()
>  }
> It works, but sometimes it crashes, in an inesperated way.

Here's a way that works well here, doesn't use OLE, and is even a sort
of portable

require 'sys/proctable'
require 'time'

Sys::ProcTable.ps.each { |ps|
  if ps.name.downcase == proc_name.downcase
    Process.kill('KILL', ps.pid)
  end
}