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David Klempfner
David Klempfner

Reputation: 9870

How to launch multiple instances of cmd prompt

I would like to launch multiple instances of a program called BIOSPwd.exe.

I use the program by typing the following into CMD prompt:

BIOSPwd.exe someInputFile.txt anotherInputFile.txt

I would like to do something like the following:

for ($i = 0; $i -lt 4; $i++)
{
  BIOSPwd.exe someInputFile$i.txt anotherInputFile$i.txt
}

to run multiple instances of the program with someInputFile1.txt etc. However this launches the program from within PowerShell ISE. I'd like it to launch multiple instances of CMD with that BIOSPwd.exe program running in each one.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3137

Answers (1)

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xXhRQ8sD2L7Z

Reputation: 1716

Something like this?

1..4 | % {
   cmd /c "BIOSPwd.exe someInputFile$($_).txt anotherInputFile$($_).txt"
}

Edit: I think the above is running one instance at a time. Try Start-Process instead:

1..4 | % {
   Start-Process -FilePath "cmd" -ArgumentList "/c BIOSPwd.exe someInputFile$($_).txt anotherInputFile$($_).txt"
}

Upvotes: 3

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