How to close system command prompt opened by MATLAB !command?

I've seen similar questions but not ones that involve opening the command window/terminal via "!". I'm using a MATLAB-to-Python socket connection and I want to close the command window/terminal at the end.

% Start the echo server in python.
!python echo_server.py &

% Do some stuff with my sockets.

% Close the connection.
fclose(tcp);
%%% Close the terminal here?

The opened command line/terminal says at the top "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe" following the closing of the socket.

[Walter Roberson]

Taskkill

[Dominik Mattioli]

A quick search suggestes that this should work, but it doesn't?

[status, result] = system('TASKKILL -pid "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe"')

Returns

status =

     1


result =

    'ERROR: Invalid query
     '

[Walter Roberson]

Taskkill /IM cmd.exe

Answer 1

[Jalaj Gambhir]

Hi,

As rightly pointed out by @Walter, the command

system('Taskkill/IM cmd.exe')

closes all the opened command windows.

[Alibert Luna Palomino]

It works for me. Thanks so much!