emulate unix 'cut' using standard windows command line/batch commands

Question

Is there a way to emulate the unix cut command on windows XP, without resorting to cygwin or other non-standard windows capabilities?

Example: Use tasklist /v, find the specific task by the window title, then extract the PID from that list to pass to taskkill.

Answer 1

FYI, tasklist and taskkill already have filtering capabilities:

tasklist /FI "imagename eq chrome.exe"
taskkill /F /FI "imagename eq iexplore.exe"

If you want more general functionality, batch scripts (ugh) can help. For example:

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%i in ('tasklist /v') do (
  if "%%i" == "%~1" (
    echo TASKKILL /PID %%j
  )
)

There's a fair amount of help for the windows command-line. Type "help" to get a list of commands with a simple summary then type "help " for more information about that command (e.g. "help for").