Killing a process in cmd or shell using a script

Question

How to implement using a shell or command line script in Windows that checks for the status of some process, ie. Tomcat server and if it exists, it kills it?

Answer 1

On window you can make a .bat file with this content:

TASKKILL /F /IM "program_name.exe"

replace program_name with the program you want to kill. Here's a decent article on TASKKILL

Or if it's just tomcat you can run shutdown.bat... if TOMCAT_HOME isn't set just run it from the tomcat home directory.