Batch File Exits After Running One Node Application Script

batch-file, node.js, uglifyjs, uglifyjs2, windows

Solution

I am not sure about your install, but probably you are calling a `uglifyjs.cmd` or `uglifyjs.bat`, and when you call a batch file from inside another batch file, the execution is transfered to the called file and it does not return to the caller.

If you want to call a second batch and that, when if finishes, execution continues in the caller, you need to use the `call` command

cd go somewhere
call uglifyjs ..\somescript -o ..\somefile.min.js --source-map ..\somemap.js.map --screw-ie8 
cd ..

Problem

I need to run several UglifyJS2 scripts with Node. I've added the command I want to run to a bat file and it runs OK. When I add a second command, like "cd ..", the command isn't executed! Very confusing. ``` cd go somewhere uglifyjs ..\somescript -o ..\somefile.min.js --source-map ..\somemap.js.map --screw-ie8 cd .. ``` I'd like to be able to run several different scripts from the same bat file. ``` uglifyjs ..\somescript1 -o ..\somefile1.min.js uglifyjs ..\somescript2 -o ..\somefile2.min.js uglifyjs ..\somescript3 -o ..\somefile3.min.js ``` I'm not sure whether this is an issue in Node, Uglify, or expected behavior.

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