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brandon d tran
brandon d tran

Reputation: 353

Starting a program in command prompt just opens up another command prompt window

Does anyone know why when I type the following command in my command prompt, instead of opening the intended program, it just opens up another command prompt window? It's the same if I create a batch file with the command.

start "C:\Program Files\BrokerLink AutoPrint\BrokerLinkAutoPrint.exe"

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3401

Answers (1)

djikay
djikay

Reputation: 10628

An extra pair of double quotes "" should make this work as expected:

start "" "C:\Program Files\BrokerLink AutoPrint\BrokerLinkAutoPrint.exe"

START regards the first quoted parameter as the window-title, unless it's the only parameter - and any switches up until the executable name are regarded as START switches.

Alternatively, you could just use:

call "C:\Program Files\BrokerLink AutoPrint\BrokerLinkAutoPrint.exe"

Upvotes: 11

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