Question

I have 80 Php scripts that I want to run. I want to Start Script1 wait until its finish starts script2 …

Now, if I add the following :

start C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\xampp\Script1.php
start C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\xampp\Script2.php
start C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\xampp\Script3.php

When I execute my Batch file it will run all scripts at the same time.

Is there any command I could use in my bat file to tell the system wait until script is done then execute the one after?
Anyway to set a time interval between scripts ?

I could run all 80 scripts in the cron tab, However, Id rather configure one batch file to handle all the scripts then assign this file to the crontab.

Thanks

Answer 1

start fires off the tasks asynchronously, thus they will all run at the same time. Use the /wait flag to start the task and wait for it to complete.

e.g.

start /wait C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\xampp\Script1.php
start /wait C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\xampp\Script2.php
start /wait C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f C:\xampp\Script3.php

Alternately, as Marc B states, removing the start call should give you sequential execution as well.