Conditional PAUSE (not in command line)

Question

I like to have a final PAUSE in my *.bat scripts so I can just double click on them in Windows explorer and have the chance to read the output. However, the fin

Answer 1

I doubt that there's a distinction, because I think it just starts a command prompt and then runs the bat when you double click on it.

However, if you make shortcuts to the bat files and go to Properties and add in an extra argument (something like "/p") in the "Target" field, then you could check for the presence of that argument at the end of the script and pause if it is set. Then, running from the shortcut would cause it to end in a pause and running from command line wouldn't.