This was takin from another post >"About your question on deleting the batch file the answer is NO, a batch file can't delete itself " </b How about this could you have your first batch file end but before it does it calls a second batch file and then in this second batch file it will delete the first batch file? Microsoft or someone needs a self destruct method :) Learning in progress..........

If you CALL a second batch the first one is still running. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Both del %0 and START CMD /C DEL %0 Seem to work fine to me, the later even got in a command after getting another instance of cmd to delete it. [edit] I just got one batch to call another batch that deleted it, all it seemed to do was end the script after the call. Kind of brings new meaning to "end of file" ending a script....

I just got one batch to call another batch that deleted it, all it seemed to do was end the script after the call. Kind of brings new meaning to "end of file" ending a script.... So I would guess this answer's part of my question I.E. In CMD i type ipconfig > ipconfig.txt This works, pretty simple but I will explain more later So i create a file called random.bat And within that batch file i put ipcong > ipconfig.txt assuming this will do the same i double click the batch file random.bat But it hangs on the CMD window and until i click the X to close it it will not complete !!!! I want this to run behind the scene without any user interaction Why wont the window close? how do i make it close and "complete" automatically? Learning in progress..........

yuo type exit as the last line Medion MIM 2080 Toshiba T2130CT Macintosh Performa 450 All working wonderfully.

It's probably caused by your default console window being set to not close when the program terminates. Don't worry, the batch file does in fact complete. It's just that the window doesn't disappear. Its title does say "Inactive command prompt", right? If you want it to disappear, you can go to the window's menu and select Properties.

"you type exit as the last line" Tried this but the problem is that let me show you I type manually in CMD ipconfig > ipconfig.txt and ipconfig.txt is created with the results of typing ipconfig in your Command. So really that works correctly. Then i say ok open notepad type ipconfig > ipconfig.txt and it should do the same thing i save the file as random.bat (anything.bat) and double click it and the cmd window hangs open with the exact thing typed below ipconfig 1>C:\ipconfig.txt What is going on ? why is there a 1 here 1> if i click X and close the window it works Don't worry, the batch file does in fact complete. It's just that the window doesn't disappear The way I 100% know that it in fact does not work when created in a .bat file is that when I do it maually in CMD it creates ipconfig.txt As its suppose to Now it will in the .bat version of running the same command but only if i click the x and exit the CMD window and having the exit at the end of the code does not work Im guessing this does not work for some reason because of the 1>? Learning in progress..........