tasklist's filders's wildcard and escape sequences

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tasklist's filders's wildcard and escape sequences

#1 Post by npocmaka_ » 13 Apr 2016 09:59

Here Alex K.'d shown that tasklist filters accept * as wildcard if it is at the end.

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tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.e*"


With some experiments I've found that double quotes can be escaped with \" unless it is the last symbol:

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title "aaa"
tasklist /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq \"aaa*"


and backslash can be escaped with \\

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title \\
tasklist /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq \\\\"


I haven't found other c-like escape or wildcard sequences. Probably there are because this gives an error:

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title \r
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq \r"

ERROR: Invalid query

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