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Windows start /wait /b NOT working

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Despite what the documentation says, I cannot get to work with , despite stabbing in the dark trying nearly every possible combination of inputs I can imagine. My command path does not contain spaces, so this is not a quoting issue. This works: This does NOT work: The program I'm trying to run is a…

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start /wait <path-to-.exe> <param1> <param2> ...

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Fix for: Windows start /wait /b NOT working

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This appears to be a bug in the implementation of the start command. There's a simple workaround: doesn't work (the /wait argument is ignored) but does. (Note that in this simple example you might as well just run mycommand directly, but this workar…

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