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Giancarlo
Giancarlo

Reputation: 125

How Can I Write a Batch File Where I Start one Program and When that Program Finishes or Closes, Start Another

For example: 

@echo off
start C:\Windows\system32\dfrgui.exe /C

Wait for defragmentation to finish.

start C:\"Program Files (x86)"\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe /AUTO

Wait for CCleaner to finish.

start C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:1

and so on.. You get the point. How I can do this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 615

Answers (1)

ChrisProsser
ChrisProsser

Reputation: 13118

Start can take a command line argument /WAIT e.g.

@echo off
title Test cmd start

start /WAIT wait.cmd 5
start /WAIT cmd /k echo launched second command

pause

This simple example uses another script I have written (wait.cmd shown below) as the first command executed, as you will see if you test this with the /WAIT option specified the script allows the first command to finish before continuing:

@echo off
rem call with # of seconds to wait

set /a secs=%1
set /a ms=%secs%*1000
echo Process will wait for %secs% seconds and then continue...
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w %ms% > nul
echo.
exit

As a side note if you open a cmd session you can find out about the arguments that a command such as start accepts e.g.

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Update following comment

So to adapt the commands you listed in your question to finish before starting the next command in the script you could use:

@echo off
start /WAIT C:\Windows\system32\dfrgui.exe /C
start /WAIT C:\"Program Files (x86)"\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe /AUTO
start /WAIT C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:1

Upvotes: 1

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