Create a new cmd.exe window from within another cmd.exe prompt

Question

I am in the process of setting up CruiseControl.NET. The problem I am having is that I am running CC as a console application and when my build completes successfully and ex

Answer 1

Simply type start in the command prompt:

start

This will open up new cmd windows.

Answer 2

START "notepad.exe"
echo Will launch the notepad.exe application
PAUSE

To make any cmd file type, all you have to do is save the contents as .bat, i.e.

@echo
TITLE example.bat
PAUSE
taskkill/IM cmd.exe

Make that into an "example.bat" file, save it, then open it and run.

Answer 3

I think this works:

start cmd.exe

Answer 4

I also tried executing batch file that run daemon process/server at the end of CCNET task; The only way to make CruiseControl spawn an independent asynchronous process WITHOUT waiting for the end of process is:

1. create a batch file to run the daemon process (server application)

2. use task scheduler to run the batch file as CCNET task (using schtasks.exe)

   schtasks.exe /create /F /SC once /ST 08:50 /TN TaskName /TR "c:/path/to/batchFileName.bat"
   

   • 08:50 is the HH:MM time format

you might need to kill the process at the start of ccnet

PS: the selected answer using "start cmd.exe" does not work; a new command prompt is indeed spawned, but CCNET will wait for the spawned cmd to finish.

Answer 5

simple write in your bat file

@cmd

or

@cmd /k "command1&command2"

Answer 6

start cmd.exe 

opens a separate window

start file.cmd 

opens the batch file and executes it in another command prompt