Batch file stops running after the first command - file

I am using the tool 'HTML Match' to compare two HTML files. As I have to compare many files, I create a batch file like the followion. For example, I give only five sets of files.
cd "C:\Program Files\HTML Match"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a1.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a1.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a1.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a2.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a2.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a2.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a3.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a3.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a3.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a4.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a4.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a4.html"
HTMLMATCH.EXE "D:\Raj\compare1\a5.html" "D:\Raj\compare2\a5.html" "D:\Raj\compare_res\a5.html"
When I execute this batch file in a cmd prompt, only the first line, that is, only 'a1.html', gets compared and produces a result. Then execution stops.

Add call in front of the commands you're running.
You can also change this to a for loop, so:
FOR /L %%i in (1,1,5) DO CALL HTMLMATCH.EXE D:\Raj\compare%%i%%\a%%i%%.html D:\Raj\compare%%i%%\a%%i%%.html D:\Raj\compare_res\a%%i%%.html

The answer to your problem is to write CALL HTMLMATCH.EXE (and the rest of the parameters).
Just use CALL in front of every executable command in the batch file.

I was looking for something really similar and tried, I think, all the replies left here but I finally found the solution to my problem!!
In my script I want to check if one process is running, if not, start it (a .exe) and then check if another process is running, if not, start it too (but leave all the programs opened) and the problem is that the first .exe was started but then not moving to the second one because it was waiting until the process ended.
It´s finally working for me with start and the magic comes with...
/separate
it works for me as:
start "program1" /separate program1.exe
other commands
Before it stopped after starting program1 because it was waiting until it was closed, I think, but this was not going to happen because I wanted to leave it opened.
Now with the start /separate it continues with the other commands.
I found it in another forum but the thing is that it´s the manual, /separate is used to start in another memory space.

You don't have to insert quotation marks where there isn't any space mark between.
Try that:
HTMLMATCH.EXE D:\Raj\compare1\a1.html D:\Raj\compare2\a1.html D:\Raj\compare_res\a1.html
Maybe it will solve your issue.

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Kicking off a script and moving on to start another

I'm trying to remotely deploy some software and I have a few batch scripts to help this process along. The basics of my process is to have a text list that scriptA goes through, scriptA copies the necessary files to the target PCs (retrieved from the list) and launches ScriptB. The theory would then be that it would move on to the next PC in the list as soon as ScriptB launches and doesn't wait for ScriptB to finish before moving on. The basics of what I have are below:
ScriptA:
Set /P List= Please enter the list name
Set /P Name= Please enter your username
FOR /F %%A IN (%LIST%) DO (
MKDIR \\%%A\C$\Temp\Install
XCOPY "\\share\necessary files" "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install"
PSEXEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install\scriptB.bat"
)
ScriptB just runs the installer and cleans up after itself.
Like I said, the goal would be that once scriptA has finished copying over files and gets things kicked off, it would move on to the next PC on the list. I've confirmed that everything works as is right now (so please ignore any random things that wouldn't work in the pseudocode above) it just takes forever because it waits for the installation to finish before moving on.
EDIT:
I realized I had the wrong files shown as being copied. What was originally listed as 'install.bat' should have been scriptB. I apologize, it has been very hard to try to get my question across as I'm having a very hard time describing the problem.
Per Request, here is how I was using start:
ScriptA:
START PSECEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install\ScriptB.bat"
It worked to start ScriptB in a new window, but what I'm really trying to have as the final product is:
scriptA gets prompts for the list of PC names
scriptA pulls the first name from the list and copies over the install files from a network share, including scriptB and puts them in \temp\install
scriptA kicks off scriptB on the PC it just copied files to.
While scriptB is running, scriptA moves on and copies the files to the next PC on the list and kicks of the next copy of scriptB
repeat until the whole list of PCs is completed.
I hope this helps to clarify things, and again, I apologize for the confusion. I have all of the steps listed above working as I would hope, the only thing that isn't working is that I can't get scriptA to kick off scriptB without pausing scriptA to wait for scriptB to finish and what I would like to have happen is that it moves on without waiting (so that I could start this script at the end of the day and it would continue installing at night until it finished the list of PCs).
Thanks again for any help!
You can use the START command to launch a command without waiting for it to end before moving on. Note that this will execute the specified command in a newly created command prompt, not in the same command prompt process.
Be aware though that if the path to your executable/batch file contains spaces, you must specify an empty string argument as the first argument. Example:
START "" "C:\Path with spaces\My other script.bat"
This is due to the fact that if the first arguments is surrounded by quotes, it is considered as being the title of the new command prompt that is launched to execute your new process. Specifying an empty argument (or the title you'd like to use for that matter) will work around this situation.
The further we are away from the actual problem, the less able we are to help. The more general the question, the more vague the response.
We're pointlessly mapping from "ScriptB" to "Install.bat" and you've claimed to have added the start command but not shown us where you've used it.
Using your original script, changing
PSEXEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install.bat"
to
start "installing on %%A" PSEXEC \\%%A -u DOMAIN\%NAME% -e "\\%%A\C$\Temp\Install.bat"
should solve the problem - but no guarantees.

BATCH - wait for executable to finish before starting next result

I'm pretty much a noob at this, so any help is appreciated.
I'm trying to run the video transcoding executable REDline on all .R3D files in a given folder. REDline only accepts single files, which is the issue. I finally got it to search recursively for the files I need, but my problem is the search function passes the next result to REDline before the first one is finished transcoding. I have the search results that need to run in a variable inside REDline.
Here's the code:
for /r D:\folder\ %%a in (*) do (
"C:/Program Files/REDCINE-X PRO 64-bit/REDLine.exe" --exportPreset "Prores_Intermediate" --i "%%~dpnxa" --useRSX 2 --masterRMDFolder "" -s 0 -e 95
)
After about .7 seconds, REDline reports 'received stop message from client'.
I don't think this is a REDline error, as I have been able to transcode single files successfully.
Thanks.
Try start /wait when running the executable.
If that does not help, the executable might start another executable which does the actual job. In that case identify the other executable using Process Monitor or Process Explorer. Check their command line parameter to see if you can run that executable directly.
If you can't run the other process yourself, you can wait until that process has exited. See Wait for executable to finish here on StackOverflow.
Im not familiar with that particular executable, but here are some suggestions you may try:
- Check the allowed parameters for REDLine.exe (documentation or possibly /?) to find out if there is any that might address your problem
- There are tools that allow you to check for the existance of a process (Microsoft Sysinternals, check the ones starting with PS*.exe) http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb545021.aspx
Use this to improve your loop so that you check if the process is running first before continuing with the next loop - or loop without doing anything until the process has exited, you can do with repeatedly calling a ping to localhost inside your loop for a fixed time interval for example
- Check the errorcodes returned by programs to see if that helps you
- Put the code that starts your encoding inside its own batch file, and the check if the process is currently running as well
- Use the creation of a dummy file before starting and delete it once finished to discern if an instance of your batch is running
- Check the difference between calling a command directly from a batch file, and using the start command to run it at the same time

running multiple exe through batch file

Experts, I am trying to run a bat file using the below.
start /wait "D:|Silent_installer.bat"
start /wait 'D:def.bat"
It's happening like both bat files running at the same time.
But I wanted the first bat file to run completely then def.bat should start. The first bat file takes approx 60 min and inbetween second bat file starting.Ideally I wanted the first batch to complete 100% then second bat file should start.
I also used call like below but no luck
call "abc.bat"
call "def.bat"
Any suggestions would be of great help
You have to use start "" /wait command with the program in the abc.bat file itself. One of the programs being used inside abc.bat is multi-threaded and lets the batch file end before it finishes.
why not simply
"abc.bat"
"def.bat"
in your batch file ?
You could use Start command to start application
Ok. Two points here.
The start command is used for asynchronous execution, so if you " wanted the first batch to complete 100% then second bat file should start", just don't use it!
In order to execute two Batch files from inside another one, you must use call command as you show us in your question, that is:
.
call "abc.bat"
call "def.bat"
Perhaps if you explain what "I also used call like below but no luck" means, we may help you in a better way.
PS - Did you realized that your first example
"D:|Silent_installer.bat"
contain an invalid character | in the name of the Batch file?

Run batch files sequentially

I want to ask you all how to run batch files sequentially in Windows.
I have tried :
start /w batchfile_1.bat
start /w batchfile_2.bat
..
start /w batchfile_n.bat
but I have to close the previous .bat file process manually (e.g. by clicking) before continuing into the next one.
Is there any solution to do this automatically without me doing the manual closing previous .bat program every time?
Thanks a lot.
I would check the solutions to this question: Run Multiple batch files
Taken from the answer in the link.
Use call:
call bat1.cmd
call bat2.cmd
By default, when you just run a batch file from another one control will not pass back to the calling one. That's why you need to use call.
Basically, if you have a batch like this:
#echo off
echo Foo
batch2.cmd
echo Bar
then it will only output
Foo
If you write it like
#echo off
echo Foo
call batch2.cmd
echo Bar
however, it will output
Foo
Bar
because after batch2 terminates, program control is passed back to your original batch file.
If you are in love with using START, you could have your batch files end with the EXIT command. That will close the windows created by the start command.
#echo off
.
.
:: Inspired coding
.
.
exit
I'm not sure but based on your comments, the following seems to be happening when you run that sequence of START commands:
A START /W command is invoked and starts a batch file.
The batch file starts executing and runs a program.
The batch file finishes and its console window remains open, but the program continues running.
The START /W command that was used to run the batch file is still executing because the console window remains open.
You wait until the program terminates, then you close the console window, and then the next START /W command is invoked, and everything is repeated.
Now, if you place EXIT at the end of every batch file you want to run sequentially, that makes situation worse because it causes the console window to close after the batch script completes, and that in turn ends the corresponding START /W command and causes another one to execute, even though the program invoked by the batch script may still be running. And so the effect is that the batch scripts (or, rather, the programs executed by them) run simultaneously rather than sequentially.
I think, if this can be solved at all, you need to move the START /W command and put it in every batch file in front of (every) command that that batch file executes and doesn't wait for the termination of. That is, if your batchfile_1.bat runs a program.exe, change the command line to START /W program.exe, and similarly for other relevant commands in other batch files.

Ensuring application close in batch files

Specifically, I'm using DGIndex in a batch file as part of a sequence to do some video encoding.
Despite accepting CLI params, DGIndex pops up a window to do the processing. This then disappears when it's finished, but the command line hangs as though it's still open. The process is no longer running.
Is there something built-in that I can do to ensure it doesn't hang, or is there a third-party proxy utility that will monitor for a process end then close itself?
I had the same problem with DGIndex in batch files. I know this is an old question, but it seems DGIndex hasn't been updated since then, so this might still be relevant.
DGIndex has 2 different command-line "styles", in the manual one being called legacy (the one using upper case letters for the settings), the other UNIX-style (lower case letters).
For me, the "-exit" command of the UNIX-style command-line did not work, so that the batch file did not receive a corresponding message from DGIndex, even though it finished its job correctly. I used the legacy commands instead, and the problem was gone.
"Funny" that Dan had the problem with the legacy commands, so the other way round.
Regards, Mike.
You could use something like this:
#echo off
echo Running program
start dgindex -BF=[vob.txt] -FO=0 -IA=2 -OM=2 -TN=0 -OF=[out] -HIDE -EXIT
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
taskkill /im dgindex.exe /f
exit >nul
This batch file basically runs the DGIndex program and then pauses for 10 seconds before attempting to close the program. Just replace the 10 with a delay of your choice, something long enough that if the program is still running it means it's crashed, then it will be closed after the delay.
I'm pretty sure you can't tell if the program has hung or not (at least not in batch anyways). This at least makes sure it isn't running if you need to run it again if it did crash.
Hope this helps!
If you use start, the batch file should return immediately after starting the dgindex application.
You can pass the /WAIT flag to start to it to tell it to wait until the process has exited before moving to the next line of the batch file.
start /WAIT dgindex -BF=[vob.txt] -FO=0 -IA=2 -OM=2 -TN=0 -OF=[out] -HIDE -EXIT
I know this is old, but did you ever get it figured out?

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