How to create a command queue and add to it once activated

There's a command I often use and the majority of the time it take multiple minutes to complete. I don't want to wait to do the command, so do it as soon as I want to. Sometimes I'd like to do an additional command a short time after but there's minutes left on the running command; 2 things then become a problem

1. I don't have a good memory so I often forget to do it, and come back to it many minutes (if not hours) after the command is completed, and
2. when I do remember, the majority of the time some minutes have passed by since the completion, as I do other tasks in the meanwhile and only check back between them.

Is there a way to create a command queue and add to it once activated? Perhaps there can be 2 command prompts, and the 2nd be tied up to the 1st and have some kind of cron to check its status; for example from 1st prompt run a command to get its process ID, then on the 2nd run a program that use that #, something like

Code:

PromptQueue /prid [#]

, then

Code:

PromptQueue /add "[command to be run in the 1st prompt once what its running ends]"

.

Thank you kindly for your help. As requested:

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
OS Version: 10.0.19044 N/A Build 19044
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free

On my Windows 10, 'PromptQueue' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.



Is PromptQueue a third-party app?

If I'm understanding your question correctly, what you want to do is run one command (perhaps launching a program) and then move on to run the next command without waiting for the first to complete. Is that correct?

You can do this by creating a batch file (a file with a .bat extension) and then place the commands in that file with a "start" preceding the commands. For example:

Code:

start PromptQueue /prid [#]
start PromptQueue /add "[command to be run in the 1st prompt once what its running ends]"

Then simply run the batch file.

Matthew Wai said:

Is PromptQueue a third-party app?

DynV said:

for example

Rename PromptQueue for ExampleProgramToMakeApromptQueueRememberThisIsAnExampleAndNotArealProgram.

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hsehestedt said:

If I'm understanding your question correctly, what you want to do is run one command (perhaps launching a program) and then move on to run the next command without waiting for the first to complete. Is that correct?

DynV said:

There's a command I often use and the majority of the time it take multiple minutes to complete. I don't want to wait to do the command, so do it as soon as I want to.

I do the 1st command right away, not even waiting even 1 second.

Please specify what are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc commands.

Matthew Wai said:

Please specify what are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc commands.

The following is an example, I will not give the real commands, they're commands that the vast majority of the time take a long time to complete.

timeout /nobreak /t 1500
timeout /nobreak /t 600
timeout /nobreak /t 1800

Code:

timeout /nobreak /t 1500
timeout /nobreak /t 600
timeout /nobreak /t 1800

Do you mean you want the above commands to be run one after another immediately without a delay?

Matthew Wai said:

Code:

timeout /nobreak /t 1500
timeout /nobreak /t 600
timeout /nobreak /t 1800

Do you mean you want the above commands to be run one after another immediately without a delay?

The 1st one immediately, the 2nd one a few minutes later, say 4, and the 3rd some more minutes later, say 6.

<The 1st command here>
Timeout.exe 240 /nobreak
<The 2nd command here>
Timeout.exe 360 /nobreak
<The 3rd command here>