Close cmd after launching a server with batch

Question

What Im trying to do is to close the cmd after running a cargo tomcat server through a batch script.. I've tried attempts such as;

• start mvn -P cargo.run && exit

• start "" mvn -P cargo.run exit

• start "" mvn -P cargo.run -Drepo.path=storage exit /b

none of them seems to work, and the cmd is still staying open. As seen in the SS.

Anyone who might know how it could be done?

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• OS windows 7

Answer 1

what you try, is like (start ... ) && exit. You need start (... & exit) (logical notation, will not work like this).

You have to escape the & to be passed to the new instance:

start mvn -P cargo.run ^& exit

If you need &&, escape both of them:

start mvn -P cargo.run ^&^& exit

(& = "and then", && = "if previous command was successful, then")