Hide Command Window Of. Bat File That Executes Another. Exe File
This Is a Batch File in Windows. Here Is My. Bat File @Echo off Copy "C: \Remoting. Config-Training" "C: \Remoting. Config" "C: \Thirdparty. Exe" This Works...
This is a batch file in Windows.
Here is my .bat file
@echo off
copy "C:\Remoting.config-Training" "C:\Remoting.config"
"C:\ThirdParty.exe"
This works fine except the .bat file leaves the command window open the whole time the "ThirdParty" application is running.
I need the command window to close.
I would use the short-cut for the application but I must be able to run this copy command first (it actually changes which data base and server to use for the application).
The ThirdParty application does not allow the user to change the source of the db or the application server.
We're doing this to allow users to change from a test environment to the production environment.
17 Answers
Using start works for me:
@echo off
copy "C:\Remoting.config-Training" "C:\Remoting.config"
start C:\ThirdParty.exe
EDIT: Ok, looking more closely, start seems to interpret the first parameter as the new window title if quoted. So, if you need to quote the path to your ThirdParty.exe you must supply a title string as well.
Examples:
:: Title not needed:
start C:\ThirdParty.exe
:: Title needed
start "Third Party App" "C:\Program Files\Vendor\ThirdParty.exe"
Create a .vbs file with this code:
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "your_batch.bat",0,True
This .vbs will run your_batch.bat hidden.
Works fine for me.
Using start works fine, unless you are using a scripting language. Fortunately, there's a way out for Python - just use pythonw.exe instead of python.exe:
:: Title not needed:
start pythonw.exe application.py
In case you need quotes, do this:
:: Title needed
start "Great Python App" pythonw.exe "C:\Program Files\Vendor\App\application.py"
Try this:
@echo off
copy "C:\Remoting.config-Training" "C:\Remoting.config"
start C:\ThirdParty.exe
exit
Great tip. It works with batch files that are running a java program also.
start javaw -classpath "%CP%" main.Main
You might be interested in trying my silentbatch program, which will run a .bat/.cmd script, suppress creation of the Command Prompt window entirely (so you won't see it appear and then disappear), and optionally log the output to a specified file.
Or you can use:
Start /d "the directory of the executable" /b "the name of the executable" "parameters of the executable" %1
If %1 is a file then it is passed to your executable. For example in notepad.exe foo.txt %1 is "foo.txt".
The /b parameter of the start command does this:
Starts an application without opening a new Command Prompt window. CTRL+C handling is ignored unless the application enables CTRL+C processing. Use CTRL+BREAK to interrupt the application.
Which is exactly what we want.
I haven't really found a good way to do that natively, so I just use a utility called hstart which does it for me. If there's a neater way to do it, that would be nice.
Using Windows API we can start new process, a console application, and hide its "black" window. This can be done at process creation and avoid showing "black" window at all.
In CreateProcess function the dwCreationFlags parameter can have CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag:
The process is a console application that is being run
without a console window. Therefore, the console handle
for the application is not set. This flag is ignored if
the application is not a console application
Here is a link to hide-win32-console-window executable using this method and source code.
hide-win32-console-window is similar to Jamesdlin's silentbatch program.
There is open question: what to do with program's output when its window does not exist? What if exceptions happen? Not a good solution to throw away the output. hide-win32-console-window uses anonymous pipes to redirect program's output to file created in current directory.
Usage
batchscript_starter.exe full/path/to/application [arguments to pass on]
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