Question

I am calling an external program, tracd, from a batch file.

@echo off                       ::turns the echo off
tracd -s --port 8000 proj_a     ::serves the proj_a wiki
start http://localhost:8000     ::opens the proj_a wiki in browser

I want the control to be transferred to the third line after tracd is called. However, the control is transferred to tracd and the third line will not be reached at all.

How can I modify the script to achieve this?

Answer 1

you could try the following:

@echo off                       ::turns the echo off
start /B tracd -s --port 8000 proj_a      ::serves the proj_a wiki
start http://localhost:8000     ::opens the proj_a wiki in browser

What start does with the /B flag is make a new cmd instance without having it visible.
I have no way to verify if this works since I’m on a Linux system at the moment, but it should be a viable solution..