How to prevent auto-closing of console after the execution of batch file

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What command can I put at the end of a batch file to prevent auto-closing of the console after the execution of the file

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Call cmd at the end of the batch file

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The below way of having commands in a batch file will open  new command prompt windows and the new windows will not exit automatically    start  title  call abcd exe param1 param2   start  title  call xyz exe param1 param2

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Depends on the exact question   Normally pause does the job within a  bat file   If you want cmd exe not to close to be able to remain typing  use cmd  k command at the end of the file

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If you want cmd exe to not close  and able to continue to type  use cmd  k   Just felt the need to clarify what  k does  from windows website        k   Carries out the command specified by string and continues    So cmd  k without follow up command at the end of bat file will just keep cmd exe window open for further use   On the other hand pause at the end of a batch file will simply pause the process and terminate cmd exe on first button press

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Possibility 1  Just make 2  bat files and write into the first   start  lt filename gt     name of 2nd batch file exit   Batch file 2 is the file that wont close in the end  So now when you open batch nr 1 It will start the 2nd and cloe itself  When the 2nd finishes it will not close entirely  as long as you wont put exit at the end   Possibility 2  Batch file 1   call  lt filename gt  cls echo End of file pause  lt any code you want gt    When the 2nd file ends then it will proceed to file 1 again and output the rest of it  With that you can even make error handlers  If nr 1 crashes it goes into nr 2 and displays it

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There are two ways to do it depend on use case  1  If you want Windows cmd prompt to stay open so that you can see execution result and close it afterwards  use     pause   2  if you want Windows cmd prompt to stay open and allow you to execute some command afterwords  use     cmd

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pause   or  echo text to display pause gt nul

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besides  pause   set  p    can be used  It will expect user input and will release the flow when enter is pressed   or  runas  user       gt nul 2 gt  amp 1   which will do the same except nothing from the user input will be displayed nor will remain in the command history

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In Windows DOS batch files   pause   This prints a nice  Press any key to continue         message  Or  if you don t want the  Press any key to continue        message  do this instead   pause  gt nul

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This little hack asks the user to enter a key and stores it into the variable  exitkey   this variable could be called anything you like though     set  p exitkey   Press any key to continue       NB  the space after the     is very important

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my way is to write an actual batch  saying  foo bat   to finish the job  then create another  start bat     echo off cmd  k foo bat   I find this is extremely useful when I set up one-time environment variables

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I know I m late but my preferred way is    programend pause gt nul GOTO programend   In this way the user cannot exit using enter

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Had problems with the answers here  so I came up with this  which works for me  TM    cmd  c node modules  bin tsc cmd  c node rollup build js pause

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Easy  add cmd to your last line of bat  BUT  if you reset or clear your system path  you must start your cmd with the full path  like     windir  system32 cmd exe   For example  I have a bat file to reset jdk to old version like this   PATH C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 45 bin C  apache-ant-1 7 1 bin SET JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 45  windir  system32 cmd exe   since I reset the system path  I have to run cmd with the full path  or the system can t find cmd exe  it will fail to run cmd  and just close the window  and you can t see the error msg

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Add cmd exe as a new line below the code you want to execute   c  Python27 python D  code simple http server py  cmd exe

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If you are using Maven and you want to skip the typing and prevent the console from close to see the result you need to use the CALL command in the script  besides just the  mvn clean install   Like this will close the console ECHO This is the wrong exemple mvn clean install pause  Like this the console will stay open ECHO This is the right exemple CALL mvn clean install pause  If you dont use the CALL command neither of the pasts exemples will work  Because for some reason the default behaviour of cmd when calling another batch file  which mvn is in this case  is to essentially replace the current process with it  unlike calling an  exe

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cmd  k cd C  Projects       If you want your cmd opened at specific long location

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