Filtered tasklist piped into find doesn't show console output?

Question

Windows XP Pro

This shows output in the console:

dir | find " free"

This doesn't:

tasklist | find "Image Name"

This does:

tasklist | find /C "Image Name"

And this does write the expected line into the file:

tasklist | find "Image Name" > foo.txt

What causes that?

Answer 1

> tasklist | find "Image Name"
Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage

Can't reproduce here. Your second command line does work as expected and that way no confusion arises when the fourth one writes that line into a file.

Did you perhaps still have the leading space in the string to search from the previous line when you searched for " free"?

Answer 2

what about findstr? have you tried?

C:\test>tasklist  | findstr "Image Name"
Image Name                   PID Session Name     Session#    Mem Usage