How to run a command in the background on Windows

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In linux you can use command  amp  to run command on the background  the same will continue after the shell is offline  I was wondering is there something like that for windows

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I m assuming what you want to do is run a command without an interface  possibly automatically    On windows there are a number of options for what you are looking for    Best  write your program as a windows service  These will start when no one logs into the server  They let you select the user account  which can be different than your own  and they will restart if they fail  These run all the time so you can automate tasks at specific times or on a regular schedule from within them  For more information on how to write a windows service you can read a tutorial online such as  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library zt39148a v vs 110  aspx   Better  Start the command and hide the window  Assuming the command is a DOS command you can use a VB or C  script for this  See here for more information  An example is   Set objShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell   objShell Run  C  yourbatch bat    0  True   You are still going to have to start the command manually or write a task to start the command  This is one of the biggest down falls of this strategy  Worst  Start the command using the startup folder  This runs when a user logs into the computer   Hope that helps some

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Use the start command with the  b flag to run a command application without opening a new window  For example  this runs dotnet run in the background  start  b dotnet run  You can pass parameters to the command application too  For example  I m starting 3 instances of this C  project  with parameter values of x  y  and z   To stop the program s  running in the background  CTRL   BREAK In my experience  this stops all of the background commands programs you have started in that cmd instance  According to the Microsoft docs   CTRL C handling is ignored unless the application enables CTRL C processing  Use CTRL BREAK to interrupt the application

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You should also take a look at the at command in Windows  It will launch a program at a certain time in the background which works in this case    Another option is to use the nssm service manager software  This will wrap whatever command you are running as a windows service    UPDATE   nssm isn t very good  You should instead look at WinSW project  https   github com kohsuke winsw

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I believe the command you are looking for is start  b  command   For unix  nohup represents  no hangup   which is slightly different than a background job  which would be  command   amp    I believe that the above command should be similar to a background job for windows

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If you take 5 minutes to download visual studio and make a Console Application for this  your problem is solved  using System  using System Linq  using System Diagnostics  using System IO   namespace BgRunner       class Program               static void Main string   args                        Console WriteLine  quot Starting   quot    String Join  quot   quot   args                String arguments   String Join  quot   quot   args Skip 1  ToArray                 String command   args 0                Process p   new Process                p StartInfo   new ProcessStartInfo command               p StartInfo Arguments   arguments              p StartInfo WorkingDirectory   Path GetDirectoryName command               p StartInfo CreateNoWindow   true              p StartInfo UseShellExecute   false              p Start                        Examples of usage  BgRunner exe php php-cgi -b 9999 BgRunner exe redis redis-server --port 3000 BgRunner exe nginx nginx

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