second bat is not executed PowerShell script

Question

the below bat files are being called by PowerShell script, however only bat1.bat is executed the others bat2.bat and last.bat are not being called

#first bat

Start-Process "C:\bat1.bat" -Wait

#run second bat
Start-Process "C:\bat2.bat" -Wait

#run last bat  
cmd.exe /c '\last.bat'

You r support is highly appreciated

Answer 1

Try using this:

Set-Location C:\temp

Start-Process .\bat1.bat -Wait
Write-Host "bat1.bat DONE"

Start-Process .\bat2.bat -Wait
Write-Host "bat2.bat DONE"

cmd /c .\last.bat
Write-Host "last.bat DONE"

I made the following .bat files:

bat1.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO bat1
PAUSE

bat2.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO bat2
PAUSE

final.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO final

When the PS script was ran, all 3 ran as one would expect.

Putting the Write-Host will show in the console if the previous process finished.

Edit:

I didn't give much explanation before, sorry.

Your issue is that one of the .bat files is not finishing.

The syntax you had should have run bat1.bat and bat2.bat. The "cmd.exe /c "\last.bat" would fail. You need the "c:\last.bat" if you aren't going to set the path to c:. If you did that, you would want ".\last.bat"

To make sure that your script would work, I made 3 basic .bat files whose functions were solely to log a string associated with them. Doing this guaranteed that if anything went wrong, it was with the PS code and not the .bat code.

After verifying your script would run, I made the one I provided. Using Set-location isn't necessary, but I think it makes the code look cleaner. The Write-Host after each process is logging in the PS console that the script is moving on to the next process.

Answer 2

Why not try

CALL "C:\bat1.bat"
CALL "C:\bat2.bat"
\last.bat

and avoid Powersmell altogether?