Can i use nodejs to quit / exit a completely different application or program, for example paint.exe?

I've been trying a lot of different search queries for this and i find it strange that this question has never been asked before (it seems to me)

Thank you in advance

CodePudding user response：

Yes you can,

First you need to determine the PID of the process. Then you can kill it with process.kill(pid)

To find the PID, I would recommend this ps-list npm package. It has a psList function which lists the active processes.

import psList from 'ps-list';

async function killProcess(name) {
    const processes = await psList()
    const match = processes.find(p => p.name === name);
    if (match) process.kill(match.pid)
}

killProcess('mspaint.exe');