How to automatically close cmd window after batch file execution

Question

I m running a batch file that has these two lines    start C  Users Yiwei Downloads putty exe -load  MathCS-labMachine1   C  Program Files  x86  Xming Xming exe   0 -clipboard -multiwindow   This batch file is used to run the Xming application and then the PuTTY app so I can SSH into my university s computer lab   However  if I run this and Xming is not already open  once I exit from the PuTTY terminal the cmd window remains open  Only if I have already run Xming does the cmd window close when I close the PuTTY terminal  I ve tried adding exit to the last line of the batch file  but to no avail

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You normally end a batch file with a line that just says exit. If you want to make sure the file has run and the DOS window closes after 2 seconds, you can add the lines:

timeout 2 >nul
exit

But the exit command will not work if your batch file opens another window, because while ever the second window is open the old DOS window will also be displayed.

SOLUTION: For example there's a great little free program called BgInfo which will display all the info about your computer. Assuming it's in a directory called C:\BgInfo, to run it from a batch file with the /popup switch and to close the DOS window while it still runs, use:

start "" "C:\BgInfo\BgInfo.exe" /popup
exit

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This worked for me  I just wanted to close the command window automatically after exiting the game  I just double click on the  bat file on my desktop  No shortcuts   taskkill  f  IM explorer exe C   GOG Games  Starcraft Starcraft exe start explorer exe exit  B

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You could try the somewhat dangerous  taskkill  IM cmd exe   dangerous bcz that will kill the cmd that is open and any cmd s opened before it   Or add a verification to confirm that you had the right cmd exe and then kill it via PID  such as this   set loc  time  random  title  loc  for  f  tokens 2 delims      A in   tasklist  v    findstr  i   loc     do  taskkill  PID   A     Substitute  pslist  amp  amp A  or  tasklist  FI  PID eq   A   for the  taskkill  PID   A  if you want to check it first  and maybe have pstools installed

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To close the current cmd windows immediately  just add as the last command line  move nul 2  0 Try move nul to nowhere and redirect the stderr to stdin will result in the current window cmd exe being closed This is different from closing a bat  or exiting it using goto  EOF or Exit  b

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I had this  I added EXIT and initially it didn t work  I guess per requiring the called program exiting advice mentioned in another response here  however it now works without further ado - not sure what s caused this  but the point to note is that I m calling a data file  html rather than the program that handles it browser exe  I did not edit anything else but suffice it to say it s much neater just using a bat file to access the main access pages of those web documents and only having title bat  contents bat  index bat in the root folder with the rest of the content in a subfolder   i e   contents bat reads  cd subfolder  contents html  exit   It also looks better if I change the bat file icons for just those items to suit the context they are in too  but that s another matter  hiding the bat files in the subfolder and creating custom icon shortcuts to them in the root folder with the images called for the customisation also hidden

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Modify the batch file to START both programs  instead of STARTing one and CALLing another  start C  Users Yiwei Downloads putty exe -load  MathCS-labMachine1  start     C  Program Files  x86  Xming Xming exe   0 -clipboard -multiwindow   If you run it like this  no CMD window will stay open after starting the program

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Just try  s as listed below   As the last line in the batch file type   exit  s   The above command will close the Windows CMD window    s - stands for silent as in  it would wait for an input from the keyboard

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This works for me cd  quot C  Program Files SmartBear SoapUI-5 6 0 bin quot   start SoapUI-5 6 0 exe -w  quot C  DATA SoapUi Workspaces Production-workspace xml quot   exit

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If you want to separate the commands into one command per file  you can do  cmd  c start C  Users Yiwei Downloads putty exe -load  MathCS-labMachine1    and in the other file  you can do   cmd  c start     C  Program Files  x86  Xming Xming exe   0 -clipboard -multiwindow   The command cmd  c will close the command-prompt window after the exe was run

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Sometimes you can reference a Windows  quot shortcut quot  file to launch an application instead of using a  quot  bat quot  file  and it won t have the residual prompt problem  But it s not as flexible as bat files

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