#echo off
start /wait notepad
start worpad
This is the code i have written in a batch file. My aim is to stop the batch file execution till the notepad application gets closed. Its working perfect but the thing is, Its displaying the command prompt also .Its opening the command prompt when i execute
start /wait notepad in my batch file.
The command prompt gets closed when i close my notepad. But i dont want the command prompt.How do i make that. I even tried these
cmd /c start /wait notepad
even the above command is not working. How do i make it.How do i open only notepad without the command prompt and wait till it is closed ?
As I said in my answer to one of your previous questions, the command prompt window is there because it is the tool that processes the batch file. The command prompt window is the working window of the CMD.EXE program, just like Notepad's working window is the one where you are editing text files. Typically, running a program with its working window hidden is a non-trivial task, unless the program has a pre-defined mode of running with the hidden window. As it happens, CMD does not have such a mode.
However, there is a way of starting a program with its window minimised. You only need to create a shortcut to your program (it can be a batch file too), then open the shortcut's properties, and on the Shortcut tab, set the Run property to Minimized. To make it clearer, here's an illustration:
Or maybe you can just use the
ping localhost -n ( your time in second ) >nul
So your code will be like this
#echo off
start notepad
ping localhost -n ( your time in second ) >nul
start worpad
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In Windows PowerShell 5.1, after run & code ., a VSCode window opens, and the control returns back to PowerShell immediately. After the PowerShell exists, the VSCode will not be terminated.
On the other hand, when invoke other external program, such as WinMerge, after run & WinMergeU, a WinMerge window opens, and the control does not return back to PowerShell until WinMerge window is closed. And If PowerShell exists, WinMerge will be terminated.
Why the behaviour is different?
the difference is what is actuall happening:
when you run the command code, you are not really running code.exe. its starting a cmd script that spawns a new code.exe process with whatever arguments you passed it.
to see what a command actually executes, use the command get-command 'yourcommand', or with code get-command code.
this will show the follwing source: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.cmd.
Opening up this will show you:
#echo off
setlocal
set VSCODE_DEV=
set ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1
"%~dp0..\Code.exe" "%~dp0..\resources\app\out\cli.js" --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node %*
endlocal
so this means that in both cases you are waiting for execution to end, but for code its a code.cmd script and not actually code.exe.
If you want to start new processes and don't wait for them, you can use the command start-process winmergeu
I'm running a built meteor app on my local machine, and to quickly boot it up, I have a .bat file that runs the following:
start "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin\mongo.exe"
set ROOT_URL=http://localhost
set MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp
set PORT=80
node main.js
When I run the cmd to start up mongo.exe it opens up a command prompt with nothing in it, as if I opened it manually.
So now, I really would like to know: why? and how to prevent this.
By default startopens up a new command line window since it assumes your command must be run with cmd.exe. If you do not like to see the window try adding /B to your start command.
See start /? on the command line to check on other options you might find interesting.
I have to run cmd / c from a program, run the start command xx.exe, and I capture the result (there xx.exe?). until everything is right, however, remains open the console with the error popup. how can I close the console with the error?
Usually win32 applications will close the command prompt after execution. If this isn't the case with what you're trying to run, you could:
Run it from Windows "Run" option (Windows button+R) than your program name and path in prompt.
Run it from a batch file, like so:
runMe.bat:
START "" "C:\windows\notepad.exe"
EXIT`
Than just run runMe.bat from wherever. Notice the 'exit' command that closes the command prompt after execution.
Read more about batch files, the start command, and this issue here, and there.
Good luck!
I have following command to start after other which does not depend on each other. However, with following command, I only can start #1, #2. My command #3 does not start .
I would like to know if i have make any mistake. I did not see the the third line executed.
// make a directory
// startd adb logcat
// shell adb monkey
"test.bat"
mkdir c:\test_log_file
START "powershell Window" powershell adb logcat >> "C:\Testdata.txt"
START "Powershell Window 2" shell adb monkey -p com.android.browser
Based on your earlier question (how to open power shell window from a batch file to a new window), I'm assuming that "shell" is a command you have available to you, and not a typo. Two possibilities come to mind:
Is "shell" in the path? If not, you need to provide the full path to this command. (Probably not the answer, because if this were the issue you'd get a popup error message telling you that Windows can't find "shell".)
Although you've titled the window "Powershell Window 2" in your second START command, this command should actually open a cmd window, not a powershell window. Are you looking for a new powershell window, when you actually have a cmd window that's titled "Powershell Window 2"?
If you want to start a powershell window, the command should be:
START "Powershell Window 2" powershell -noexit shell adb monkey -p com.android.browser
I have this line:
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe start /minimized /wait cmd.exe /c picture.jpg
I use this line in Target field of shortcut.
When I run it, it opens minimized cmd, and picture. What I need is to close that cmd, after opening picture, or to run cmd in hidden mode.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
I am not sure it this may work in your scenario. There are two possible workouts to this.
1) Use a batch script and in the last line, simply add exit to the script. save it as something.bat and run it whenever needed. This will execute the scripts and in the end, the cmd will exit.
2) Alternately you may use want to run the cmd in hidden mode (not minimized). to do this, create a batch job. then pack this batch file using this particular exe compressor - 'iExpress'. (type iexpress under the run box) This has an option to run the scripts in hidden mode. they will run in background.
Isn't
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start picture.jpg
doing what you need ?
Why don't you just point the shortcut directly to
picture.jpg
?
Why you need cmd to open a picture?
Just do it like
rundll "C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll" "image.png"