How do I minimize the command prompt from my bat file

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I have this bat file and I want to minimize the cmd window when I run it    echo off cd  d C  leads ssh  call C  Ruby192 bin setrbvars bat ruby C  leads ssh put leads rb   Basically I want the command window minimized immediately  Any ideas on how to do this

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Use the start command  with the  min switch to run minimized  For example   start  min C  Ruby192 bin setrbvars bat   Since you ve specified a batch file as the argument  the command processor is run  passing the  k switch  This means that the window will remain on screen after the command has finished  You can alter that behavior by explicitly running cmd exe yourself and passing the appropriate switches if necessary   Alternatively  you can create a shortcut to the batch file  are PIF files still around   and then alter its properties so that it starts minimized

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You can minimize the command prompt on during the run but you ll need two additional scripts  windowMode and getCmdPid bat    echo off  call getCmdPid call windowMode -pid  errorlevel  -mode minimized  cd  d C  leads ssh  call C  Ruby192 bin setrbvars bat ruby C  leads ssh put leads rb

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Another option that works fine for me is to use ConEmu  see http   conemu github io en ConEmuArgs html   C  Program Files ConEmu ConEmu64 exe  -min -run myfile bat

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You could try running a script as follows  var WindowStyle Hidden   0 var objShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell   var result   objShell Run  cmd exe  c setrbvars bat   WindowStyle Hidden    save the file as filename js

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Using PowerShell you can minimize from the same file without opening a new instance   powershell -window minimized -command      Also -window hidden and -window normal is available to hide completely or restore     source  https   stackoverflow com a 45061676 1178975

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Yet another free 3rd party tool that is capable of minimizing the console window at any time  not only when starting the script  is Tcl with the TWAPI extension   echo package require twapi twapi  minimize window  twapi  get console window    tclkitsh -   here tclkitsh exe is in the PATH and is one of the tclkit-cli- -twapi-  exe files downloadable from sourceforge net projects twapi files Tcl binaries Tclkits with TWAPI   I prefer it to the much lighter min exe mentioned in Bernard Chen s answer because I use TWAPI for countless other purposes already

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If you want to start the batch for Win-Run   autostart  I found I nice solution here https   www computerhope com issues ch000932 htm  amp  https   superuser com questions 364799 how-to-run-the-command-prompt-minimized  cmd exe  c start  min myfile bat   amp  exit    the cmd exe is needed as start is no windows command that can be executed outside a batch  c   exit after the start is finished the   amp  exit part ensures that the window closes even if the batch does not end with exit   However  the initial cmd is still not minimized

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One way to  minimise  the cmd window is to reduce the size of the console using something like     echo DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW MODE CON COLS 30 LINES 2   You can reduce the COLS to about 18 and the LINES to 1 if you wish  The advantage is that it works under WinPE  32-bit or 64-bit  and does not require any 3rd party utility

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There is a quite interesting way to execute script minimized by making him restart itself minimised  Here is the code to put in the beginning of your script   if not DEFINED IS MINIMIZED set IS MINIMIZED 1  amp  amp  start     min    dpnx0      amp  amp  exit     script logic here     exit   How it works  When the script is being executed IS MINIMIZED is not defined  if not DEFINED IS MINIMIZED  so    IS MINIMIZED is set to 1  set IS MINIMIZED 1  Script starts a copy of itself using start command   amp  amp  start     min    dpnx0     where       - empty title for the window   min - switch to run minimized     dpnx0  - full path to your script     - passing through all your script s parameters   Then initial script finishes its work   amp  amp  exit    For the started copy of the script variable IS MINIMIZED is set by the original script so it just skips the execution of the first line and goes directly to the script logic   Remarks   You have to reserve some variable name to use it as a flag  The script should be ended with exit  otherwise the cmd window wouldn t be closed after the script execution  If your script doesn t accept arguments you could use argument as a flag instead of variable   if   1        start     min    dpnx0  MY FLAG  amp  amp  exit or shorter if   1        start     min    f0  MY FLAG  amp  amp  exit

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One option is to find one of the various utilities that can change the window state of the currently running console window and make a call to it from within the batch script   You can run it as the first thing in your batch script  Here are two such tools   min exe http   www paulsadowski com wsh cmdprogs htm  cmdow http   www commandline co uk cmdow index html

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If you type this text in your bat file   start  min blah exe   It will immediately minimize as soon as it opens the program  You will only see a brief flash of it and it will disappear

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The only way I know is by creating a Windows shortcut to the batch file and then changing its properties to run minimized by default

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