Kill or close 100 CMD windows being opened in squence

batchcmd.exe

I'm doing an operation that will open 100 Dos windows in sequence (one after the other is finished).

Each window will take approximately 2 hours to complete the process, then the next window starts, and so on.

I would like to close each right after it starts. Is there any way I can automate the process of closing the dos windows?

UPDATE: I'm running a software that opens a DOS window to perform an operation, upon opening the DOS window the software writes a batch file. This will happen about 100 times because I setup the software to perform 100 different operations.
I'm going to use all 100 batch files later. I need to automate the closure of the DOS windows. I don't really need those windows, I only care for the batch files being written.
Hope this clarifies the issue.

Best Answer

If you're using GOTO EOF at the end of your scripts that are executed, you can simply replace that with EXIT /B instead and that should work for your need.

Example Script

@ECHO ON 
SET RootDir=C:\Folder

FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A IN ('DIR /S /B "%RootDir%\*.bat"') DO START "" "%%~A"
EXIT /B

EXIT

Quit the current batch script, quit the current subroutine or quit the command processor (CMD.EXE) optionally setting an errorlevel code.

Syntax
EXIT [/B] [exitCode]
Key
/B        When used in a batch script, this option will exit 
          only the script (or subroutine) but not CMD.EXE
exitCode
          Sets the %ERRORLEVEL% to a numeric number.
          If quitting CMD.EXE, set the process exit code no.
_source

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Windows – way to parse arguments into a batch script

I have managed to translate the majority of this script to work in a Windows 7 batch file. I have not tested this against any other version of Windows.

This program scans the command line sent to it and sets various environment variables that coorespond to the settings.

It sets an OPTION_arg variable for each arg on the command line. If a switch, the env var is set to 1. If a value is given via the colon sign, it's set to that value. Note, there can not be any white space around the : [Modification] This modified script also cannot handle option or parameter values containing spaces, even when encased in parenthesis. [/Modification]

Use If defined OPTION_arg or if /i "%OPTION_arg%"=="value" to test for options

It also sets a parameter variable for each paramater entered: PARAM_1 to PARAM_n and PARAM_0 is a special value that contains the number of PARAMs. Useful for looping through all of them. For example for /l (1,1,%PARAM_0%) do ...

In your batch file call getopt as call GetOpt.bat %*

I also recommend setting setlocal and endlocal in the host batch file so that the option and param variables do not stick around after the host batch files exits.

Example usage:  HostBatchFile.bat /a /b:22 /longopt Parm1 Parm2
   OPTION_a will equal 1.
   OPTION_b will equal 22
   OPTION_longopt will eqal 1.
   PARAM_1 will equal Parm1
   PARAM_2 will equal Parm2
   PARAM_0 will be set to the number of parms, so 2 in this case

The parts I have not translated are:

Incorporating any kind of DEBUG flag for screen output
Being able to handle "strings with spaces" for either options or parameters as the initial separation of arguments fed in are split using <SPACE>

Here is the translated script.

@echo off
cls

set getopt_ParmCounter=1
set paramc=1
set DEBUG=1

set argc=0
for %%x in (%*) do Set /A argc+=1
echo Number of arguments: %argc%
echo %*&echo.

set _myvar=%*

rem Loop through all command line arguments one at a time
:varloop
set isparam=1
for /f "tokens=1*" %%a in ('echo %_myvar%') DO (
   set getopt_Parm=%%a
   set _myvar=%%b
   call :paramtype

   rem shift along arguments and rerun loop
   if NOT "%%b"=="" goto varloop
)
goto :eof

:paramtype
rem If first character starts with a - or / it must be an option
if /i "%getopt_Parm:~0,1%"=="-" call :option
if /i "%getopt_Parm:~0,1%"=="/" call :option 
if /i "%isparam%"=="1" call :param
goto :eof

:option
   set isparam=0
   rem Set the Equal Index to the position of the colon.  0 means none was found
   for /f %%j in ('findstring %getopt_Parm% :') do set getopt_EqIdx=%%j

   rem If the index is GE 0 then we must have a colon in the option.
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      :colon
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         set /a getopt_ParmNameEnd=%getopt_EqIdx%-2
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         goto :eof

      :nocolon
         rem This is a flag, so simply set the value to 1
         set getopt_ParmName=%getopt_Parm:~1%
         set getopt_ParmValue=1
         set OPTION_%getopt_ParmName%=%getopt_ParmValue%
         goto :eof

:param
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   set PARAM_%getopt_ParmCounter%=%getopt_Parm%
   set PARAM_0=%getopt_ParmCounter%
   set /a getopt_ParmCounter+=1
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Anki Cards: Batch import audio media

This is how I did it:

In my Spreadsheet, the audio files were in column F2.

So in a new column (F3) I added the following formula:

=SUBSTITUTE("[sound:#]", "#", F2)

So the final output was like this:

[sound:vocab13en.mp3]

In Anki, I went to my user folder. On a mac this is in USERNAME/ANKI/User1. In there, there is a folder called "Collection.media" Pop all your audio files in that folder (It's worth renaming them with a prefix, so they don't get mixed up as you can't use separate folders. If you do this, rename them in the spreadsheet).
Open Anki and create a new Deck. Create a new card and make sure it has fields for Audio. Click on the "Cards..." button and add the audio field to your template.
Finally, import your spreadsheet making sure the audio column (created in column F3 in step 1) is mapped to your audio field (created in step 3).

Voila! Now all your Anki cards will be imported with audio files.

Best Answer

EXIT

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