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Let's have two .cmd procedures:

a.cmd:



And b.cmd:



Now execute a.cmd and then b.cmd:



Result:

CMD window closes.

Now change a.cmd to this:



(goto :EOF above could of course be omitted in this case).

Execute it:



Result:



We can see that b.cmd is not executed if we have EXIT in procedure a.cmd. I would expect: a.cmd completes with EXIT and next command (calling of b.cmd) executes. But looks like it is not.

Can this be avoided? Thoughts?

Thanks.
Saso

It's the expected and documented behavior.
http://www.dostips.com/DosCommandIndex.php#EXIT

EXIT is counterproductive in almost every case because it quits the cmd.exe process.

If you need to return a value use EXIT /B n (with n an integral 32 bit value). If not, use either EXIT /B or GOTO :EOF. All of them do only Exit the current batch script.

Steffen