Using WMIC to get a specific Process ID

Question

I'm trying to write a batch file to grab a processid of a specific w3wp.exe process. There are multiple w3wp's running on this server, so I need to add a where clause to get the right one. I can do this part...so, I've got this so far:
for /f %%a in ('Wmic process where "commandline like '%%PROD%%'and name='w3wp.exe'" get ProcessId ') do echo %%a
The problem is that the output contains the literal column heading 'Process ID' along with the numeric value for the process id I'm looking for. All I want is the actual PID, so that I can store that in a variable and use it further down in my batch file.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

Answer 1

if you like a PowerShell solution it will be like this:
get-process w3wp |  select Id | ft -AutoSize
Or you can actually just use: stop-service w3wp
But if you want batch file, I guess its kinda hard..
Batch file:
 for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('tasklist ^| find "w3wp.exe"') do set PID=%%i
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