如何从单个“主”批处理文件在不同位置同时运行多个批处理文件？

Question

These different batch files are functioning fine when executed individually, but for convenience I have been trying to execute them all at once from one location to save me from navigating through the many different sub-folders to execute them one by one.

I would have thought that my first testing attempt featuring a few of the batch files would work:

    CALL "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"
    CALL "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Enhanced 4X Mod - Git Clone\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"
    CALL "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Star Wars Interregnum - Git Clone\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"

But when I ran this nothing happened besides the cmd window appearing for a split second and then closing, with none of the referenced batch files executed.

After multiple attempts, the only thing that half worked was:

    cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo"
    CALL "Sins_text_to_bin.bat"
    cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Enhanced 4X Mod - Git Clone\GameInfo"
    CALL "Sins_text_to_bin.bat"
    cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Star Wars Interregnum - Git Clone\GameInfo"
    CALL "Sins_text_to_bin.bat"

But that does not run the batch files concurrently; instead it executes them one after the other.

I know I'm probably missing something elementary here, but I am pretty much an illiterate pleb with stuff like this, so please be kind ;)

Answer 1

Below command could meet your expectation. 'master' batch file look like

START "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat" CALL "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"
START "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Enhanced 4X Mod - Git Clone\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat" CALL "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Enhanced 4X Mod - Git Clone\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"
START "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Star Wars Interregnum - Git Clone\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat" CALL "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Star Wars Interregnum - Git Clone\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"

Answer 2

to call a command means, execute it, wait until it is finished before continuing.
to start a command means, execute it in another instance of cmd and continue without waiting for it to finish.

So if you want to execute several programs in parallel, you should use start . The first quoted parameter is the title of the new instance (can be empty: "" ). The /D parameter gives a working directory. Filenames/paths with spaces have to be quoted. So the final line would look something like:

start "title" /d "<my folder>" "<my program>"

or in your case:

start "" /D "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo" "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo\Sins_text_to_bin.bat"

Answer 3

I found a solution!

The attempt that I posted above in the second code window that I said "half worked" was close. It seems that the call command when used in this way forces the first batch process to finish before the next one begins.

If you want all of your referenced batch files to execute concurrently as I do, then the start instead of the call command is what will work:

   cd "\directory\bat1\"
   start bat1.bat
   cd "\directory\bat2\"
   start bat2.bat
   cd "\directory\bat3\"
   start bat3.bat

Which in my specific case using my example attempts earlier looks like this:

    cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\GameInfo"
    start Sins_bin_to_text.bat
    cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Enhanced 4X Mod - Git Clone\GameInfo"
    start Sins_bin_to_text.bat
    cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.83\Star Wars Interregnum - Git Clone\GameInfo"
    start Sins_bin_to_text.bat