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How to run multiple commands via START command

I have a case where I need to spawn multiple CMD instances (using the START program), and each instance needs to run some commands in sequence. These commands are generated by a batch script, so they are not known ahead of time.

Basically, what I'm looking to do is something like the following, but I don't know the proper syntax (or if it's even possible):

START (program_a && program_b && program_c)

Obviously, those parentheses are incorrect syntax. So when I try to run some syntactically correct variant(s):

START program_a && program_b && program_c

I just end up with one CMD instance being spawned, running program_a, and the "owning" batch script continues to execute program_b and program_c on its own (i.e. not in the CMD instance spawned by START).

Solution

  • I think, you need something like:

    start "MyWindow" cmd /c "ping localhost & ipconfig & pause"