Executing multiple commands from a Windows cmd script

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I m trying to write a Windows cmd script to perform several tasks in series  However  it always stops after the first command in the script   The command it stops after is a maven build  not sure if that s relevant    How do I make it carry on and run each task in turn please   Installing any software or configuring the registry etc is completely out of the question - it has to work on a vanilla Windows XP installation I m afraid   Ideally I d like the script to abort if any of the commands failed  but that s a  nice to have   not essential   Thanks

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Not sure why the first command is stopping  If you can make it parallel  you can try something like        start cmd exe  C 1 bat       start cmd exe  C 2 bat

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I don t know the direct answer to your question  but if you do a lot of these scripts  it might be worth learning a more powerful language like perl   Free implementations exist for Windows  e g  activestate  cygwin    I ve found it worth the initial effort for my own tasks   Edit   As suggested by  Ferruccio  if you can t install extra software  consider vbscript and or javascript   They re built into the Windows scripting host

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Not sure why the first command is stopping  If you can make it parallel  you can try something like        start cmd exe  C 1 bat       start cmd exe  C 2 bat

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You can use the  amp  amp  symbol between commands to execute the second command only if the first succeeds   More info here http   commandwindows com command1 htm

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I have just been doing the exact same ish  task of creating a batch script to run maven test scripts  The problem is that calling maven scrips with mvn clean install     is itself a script and so needs to be done with call mvn clean install   Code that will work  rem run a maven clean install cd C  rbe-ui-test-suite  call mvn clean install rem now run through all the test scripts call mvn clean install -Prun-integration-tests -Dpattern tc-login call mvn clean install -Prun-integration-tests -Dpattern login-1   Note rather the use of call  This will allow the use of consecutive maven scripts in the batch file

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You can use the  amp  amp  symbol between commands to execute the second command only if the first succeeds   More info here http   commandwindows com command1 htm

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Using double ampersands will run the second command  only if the first one succeeds   cd Desktop project-directory  amp  amp  atom     Where as  using only one ampersand will attempt to run both commands  even if the first fails   cd Desktop project-directory  amp  atom

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Note that you don t need semicolons in batch files  And the reason why you need to use call is that mvn itself is a batch file and batch files need to call each other with call  otherwise control does not return to the caller

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I don t know the direct answer to your question  but if you do a lot of these scripts  it might be worth learning a more powerful language like perl   Free implementations exist for Windows  e g  activestate  cygwin    I ve found it worth the initial effort for my own tasks   Edit   As suggested by  Ferruccio  if you can t install extra software  consider vbscript and or javascript   They re built into the Windows scripting host

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You can use the  amp  amp  symbol between commands to execute the second command only if the first succeeds   More info here http   commandwindows com command1 htm

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I have just been doing the exact same ish  task of creating a batch script to run maven test scripts  The problem is that calling maven scrips with mvn clean install     is itself a script and so needs to be done with call mvn clean install   Code that will work  rem run a maven clean install cd C  rbe-ui-test-suite  call mvn clean install rem now run through all the test scripts call mvn clean install -Prun-integration-tests -Dpattern tc-login call mvn clean install -Prun-integration-tests -Dpattern login-1   Note rather the use of call  This will allow the use of consecutive maven scripts in the batch file

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Using double ampersands will run the second command  only if the first one succeeds   cd Desktop project-directory  amp  amp  atom     Where as  using only one ampersand will attempt to run both commands  even if the first fails   cd Desktop project-directory  amp  atom

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Not sure why the first command is stopping  If you can make it parallel  you can try something like        start cmd exe  C 1 bat       start cmd exe  C 2 bat

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When you call another  bat file  I think you need  call  in front of the call   call otherCommand bat

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When you call another  bat file  I think you need  call  in front of the call   call otherCommand bat

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If you are running in Windows you can use the following command   Drive   cd  Script location  schtasks  run  tn  TASK1  schtasks  run  tn  TASK2  schtasks  run  tn  TASK3  exit

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I don t know the direct answer to your question  but if you do a lot of these scripts  it might be worth learning a more powerful language like perl   Free implementations exist for Windows  e g  activestate  cygwin    I ve found it worth the initial effort for my own tasks   Edit   As suggested by  Ferruccio  if you can t install extra software  consider vbscript and or javascript   They re built into the Windows scripting host

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I don t know the direct answer to your question  but if you do a lot of these scripts  it might be worth learning a more powerful language like perl   Free implementations exist for Windows  e g  activestate  cygwin    I ve found it worth the initial effort for my own tasks   Edit   As suggested by  Ferruccio  if you can t install extra software  consider vbscript and or javascript   They re built into the Windows scripting host

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When you call another  bat file  I think you need  call  in front of the call   call otherCommand bat

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When you call another  bat file  I think you need  call  in front of the call   call otherCommand bat

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Note that you don t need semicolons in batch files  And the reason why you need to use call is that mvn itself is a batch file and batch files need to call each other with call  otherwise control does not return to the caller

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You can use the  amp  amp  symbol between commands to execute the second command only if the first succeeds   More info here http   commandwindows com command1 htm

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Not sure why the first command is stopping  If you can make it parallel  you can try something like        start cmd exe  C 1 bat       start cmd exe  C 2 bat

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If you are running in Windows you can use the following command   Drive   cd  Script location  schtasks  run  tn  TASK1  schtasks  run  tn  TASK2  schtasks  run  tn  TASK3  exit

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