There's no straightforward way to do this since the generated ID is not in your control. The work-around would to use the result of a 'query' operation to subsequently invoke the 'get' operation. Following would work in any unix environment: | ./twiddle.sh -s 127.0.0.1:1099 get --noprefix `./twiddle.sh -s 127.0.0.1:1099 query jboss.web.deployment:* | grep war_name` StateString | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4126904#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...