how to run multiple batch files in serial, in windows command line environment

Question

I have a batch file, ``` bat1.bat bat2.bat ``` but it stops at the end of bat1 any clues?

Accepted Answer

Use `call`:

```
call bat1.cmd
call bat2.cmd
```

By default, when you just run a batch file from another one controll will not pass back to the calling one. That's why you need to use `call`.

Basically, if you have a batch like this:

```
@echo off
echo Foo
batch2.cmd
echo Bar
```

then it will only output

```
Foo
```

If you write it like

```
@echo off
echo Foo
call batch2.cmd
echo Bar
```

however, it will output

```
Foo
Bar
```

because after `batch2` terminates, program control is passed back to your original batch file.

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