Run a different batch file when one coses

Question

I have 2 batch files (1.bat and 2.bat). I want 2.bat to run when 1.bat closes. Is that possible?

Or is there a way to close a batch file when a batch file closes. Here is my code which doesnt work:

cd C:\xampp
start apache_start.bat
cd C:\Users\MinecraftServer\Desktop\1.12.2MinecraftServer
MC1.12.2Start.bat
taskkill /F /IM cmd.exe /T

I have a minecraft server running with a .bat file and a web server running off of a .bat file (using xampp, its used for prtg monitorng).

Answer 1

start will create a completely independent process and continue immediately to your next batch command. That independent process may do a job and terminate, or may say open an application like notepad and wait until the notepad is closed. Regardless, a straight start command will not stop the batch that it is in - the next step will be executed, whether or not the process that has been started has terminated.

You can also add the /wait switch to start. If this switch is used, the batch will wait until the started process terminates.

Preferred syntax for start is

start /wait "window title" executable parameters...

where "window title" may be an empty, but not absent string. Including this as the first parameter is preferred because the first quoted string in a start command is used as a window title for the started process, and thus start may not act as expected where the executable or any of its parameters is quoted.

call executablename... will wait for that executable to terminate before progressing to the next step. This may or may not be what is desired.

MC1.12.2Start.bat in your code will SWITCH to that batch and remaining batch lines will be ignored.

Which may be fortunate in this case, since as you've coded it, the apache_start.bat may or may not have completed when the taskkill command is run, killing all cmd.exe sessions.