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At the end of your bat file, &nbsp;Just call CMD.exe itself.
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At the end of your bat file,  Just call CMD.exe itself.

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Did not work. Moreover, I want the current CMD window open not a new one. The idea is that the bat file will automatically do the first two steps of a process then I can take over and continue manually.
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Did not work. Moreover, I want the current CMD window open not a new one. The idea is that the bat file will automatically do the first two steps of a process then I can take over and continue manually.

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the solution would be to instead of calling the .bat file directly (like this)
<pre><code id="code-20-39840120-1">&quot;C:\My programs\test.bat&quot;</code></pre>
would be to call it with the cmd.exe /K switch
<pre><code id="code-20-39840120-2">C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /K &quot;C:\My programs\test.bat&quot;</code></pre>
hope this helps
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the solution would be to instead of calling the .bat file directly (like this)

"C:\My programs\test.bat"

would be to call it with the cmd.exe /K switch

C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /K "C:\My programs\test.bat"

hope this helps

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How are you invoking this BAT file?<br />
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~bp
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I have a bat file that is:<br />

<pre><code id="code-10-28358546-1">cd C:\Users\Bob\addon-sdk
bin\activate</code></pre>
The point of the file is to open a cmd, go to a directory and start a service. What I want is to keep the cmd window open so I can start working but the cmd window always closes. I have tried <i>pause</i> and &nbsp;<i>cmd /k</i> at the end of the file but the cmd window still closes.<br />
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Any idea?
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I have a bat file that is:
(CODE)
The point of the file is to open a cmd, go to a directory and start a service. What I want is to keep the cmd window open so I can start working but the cmd window always closes. I have tried pause and  cmd /k at the end of the file but the cmd window still closes.

Any idea?

Windows bat file that leaves the cmd window open and allows for more action

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.