I am using the following script on a command line to kill a hypothetical notepad process (using a Korn shell in Windows XP, if that matters):

kill $(tasklist | grep -i notepad.exe | awk '{print 2}')

Now I take this line, and put it into a batch file c:\temp\testkill.bat, thinking that I should just as well be able to kill the process by running the batch file. However, when I run the batch file, I get the following awk error about unbalanced parentheses:

C:/Temp> ./testkill.bat

C:\Temp>kill $(tasklist | grep -i notepad.exe | awk '{print $2}')
awk: unbalanced () Context is:
>>> {print $2}) <<<
C:/Temp>

So I'm baffled as to why I am getting this error about unbalanced parentheses when I run this script via a batch file, but have no issues when I run the command directly from the command line?

(Btw, I'm not necessarily tied to this way of killing a process - as a total noob to shell scripting, I am additionally wondering why if I write the following on the command line:

tasklist | grep -i notepad.exe | awk '{print $2}' | kill

the process ID that comes out of the tasklist/grep/awk calls doesn't seem to properly get piped to kill...)