Closing another cmd.exe window from batch script? Opposite of START cmd.exe /k "...." ?

[Cindy Parker]

From a DOS batch script under WinXP I launched another CommandPrompt and start a program "myserver" in
this new window with a command like:

START cmd.exe /k "myserver parm1 parm2"

The original initiating batch script ends.

Then - after a while - I start another DOS batch script and
want to close this previously created other cmd.exe window.

How can I do this?

I don't want to touch the program "myserver".
All necessary stuff should be done in the closing batch script.
And of cause I don't want to manually enter "exit" in the CommandPrompt to be closed.
All should be done automatically in/from a closing supervisor batch script.

In other words: I need the opposite of the START command.
Unfortunately there is no command like:

CLOSE "cmd.exe -title=myserver"

Is there a work around for that?

Cindy

 

[Bob I]

Re: Closing another cmd.exe window from batch script? Opposite ofSTART cmd.exe /k "...." ?

Cindy Parker wrote:

> From a DOS batch script under WinXP I launched another CommandPrompt and start a program "myserver" in
> this new window with a command like:
>
> START cmd.exe /k "myserver parm1 parm2"
>
> The original initiating batch script ends.
>
> Then - after a while - I start another DOS batch script and
> want to close this previously created other cmd.exe window.
>
> How can I do this?
>
> I don't want to touch the program "myserver".
> All necessary stuff should be done in the closing batch script.
> And of cause I don't want to manually enter "exit" in the CommandPrompt to be closed.
> All should be done automatically in/from a closing supervisor batch script.
>
> In other words: I need the opposite of the START command.
> Unfortunately there is no command like:
>
> CLOSE "cmd.exe -title=myserver"
>
> Is there a work around for that?
>
> Cindy
>

replace /k with /c

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"Cindy Parker" <cypy@live.com> wrote in message
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> From a DOS batch script under WinXP I launched another CommandPrompt and
> start a program "myserver" in
> this new window with a command like:
>
> START cmd.exe /k "myserver parm1 parm2"
>
> The original initiating batch script ends.
>
> Then - after a while - I start another DOS batch script and
> want to close this previously created other cmd.exe window.
>
> How can I do this?
>
> I don't want to touch the program "myserver".
> All necessary stuff should be done in the closing batch script.
> And of cause I don't want to manually enter "exit" in the CommandPrompt to
> be closed.
> All should be done automatically in/from a closing supervisor batch
> script.
>
> In other words: I need the opposite of the START command.
> Unfortunately there is no command like:
>
> CLOSE "cmd.exe -title=myserver"
>
> Is there a work around for that?
>
> Cindy
>

You can use the command

tasklist | find /i "cmd"

to extract the Process-ID of the command processor you wish to terminate,
then use the command

taskkill /PID xxx

to kill that process.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Yes, Bob, using the /c switch in the line that starts the "myserver"
program turns it's meaning from : /k[ontinue] to : /c [and close]

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.




"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Cindy Parker wrote:
>
>> From a DOS batch script under WinXP I launched another CommandPrompt and
>> start a program "myserver" in this new window with a command like:
>>
>> START cmd.exe /k "myserver parm1 parm2"
>>
>> The original initiating batch script ends.
>>
>> Then - after a while - I start another DOS batch script and
>> want to close this previously created other cmd.exe window.
>>
>> How can I do this?
>>
>> I don't want to touch the program "myserver".
>> All necessary stuff should be done in the closing batch script.
>> And of cause I don't want to manually enter "exit" in the CommandPrompt
>> to be closed.
>> All should be done automatically in/from a closing supervisor batch
>> script.
>>
>> In other words: I need the opposite of the START command.
>> Unfortunately there is no command like:
>>
>> CLOSE "cmd.exe -title=myserver"
>>
>> Is there a work around for that?
>>
>> Cindy
>>
>
> replace /k with /c
>