Practice start, tasklist, taskkill and timeout

Practice managing programs in a safe Windows Command Prompt: launch with start, list running processes with tasklist, end one with taskkill /IM, and wait with timeout.

COMMAND LINE CODEX// a wizard's guide to the Windows command line

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Command Line Codex practice shell [Version 1.0]

A safe sandbox: every file here is pretend, so experiment freely.

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From the Codex

The commands in this chapter

startStart a separate window to run a program or command.tasklistList currently running processes.taskkillEnd a running process by name or process ID.timeoutPause a batch file for a specified number of seconds.