How to loop a software using batch file

Hi,

I have a software that runs from command line, and it needs 2 command windows to run in parallel.

So I use a .bat file to start both commands using START.

Something like:
START program.exe -m method1
START program.exe -m method2

One method runs for 10 hours and the other for 11 hours, then each batch command window closes.
How can I run both methods in loops instead of having to restart each manually?

Edit: since they do not end in the same time, I'm waiting for the second method to end and then I start both together, but then there's a time when the first method is not running because it ends earlier, although it needs to keep running immediately when it finishes

Thanks

Hi, personally I'd turn to Autohotkey (free) which provides extensive syntax for loops, tests, conditional structures and can interact with processes running under Windows.

Liargoff said:

So I use a .bat file to start both commands using START.

Something like:
START program.exe -m method1
START program.exe -m method2

One method runs for 10 hours and the other for 11 hours, then each batch command window closes.
How can I run both methods in loops instead of having to restart each manually?

To loop a batch file forever add a label at the beginning and a GOTO at the end. START has a /WAIT option, so you can wait for the longer of the two methods to complete before looping back to the beginning. Something like....

:Begin
START program.exe -m method1
START /WAIT program.exe -m method2
GOTO Begin

Hello @Bree,

Bree said:

To loop a batch file forever add a label at the beginning and a GOTO at the end. START has a /WAIT option, so you can wait for the longer of the two methods to complete before looping back to the beginning. Something like....

:Begin
START program.exe -m method1
START /WAIT program.exe -m method2
GOTO Begin

I run a list of Commands in a Batch Script, and on one particular one [ CCleaner ], I wanted to get it to wait to finish before continuing, so I timed the duration that it ran and then added a quarter of the time, and ended up with this . . .

Code:

cd %ProgramFiles%\CCleaner & Start CCleaner64.exe /auto
timeout /t 20 /nobreak >nul