Removing windows command line after execution

Is there any way to remove the command line after execution. For example, if you use the system function to invoke another program, the cmd is left in the background blank. Is there a function like cmdclose() or something, I've had a search and I failed to come up with anything. Thanks

My understanding is this goes away automatically, unless you have a pause, or, the cmd window was open to start with.

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My understanding is this goes away automatically, unless you have a pause, or, the cmd window was open to start with.

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But if you use system() as he used in his example, your program waits for the other to finish before it closes it's command window.

Instead of system(), I would use the spawn() family of functions - they spawn a separate process and once it's loaded your program continues as normal - closing the command window if that's when it ends.

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Originally Posted by sean

But if you use system() as he used in his example, your program waits for the other to finish before it closes it's command window.

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Yes, certainly. I was assuming that.

I use this same scenario from C to call Notepad and I reformat a file to < 72 chars per line. When I close Notepad, the cmd window goes away.

Thanks, spawn seems to be what I'm looking for. I wrote this and i'm recieving error code -1, the file paths are relative, and all the files are in the correct location. Any ideas why it's giving that error?

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <windows.h>


int main(void)
{ 
    int spawn_error_check;
    char eclipse[150];
    char *eclipse_ptr;
    eclipse_ptr = eclipse;
    /*Change these directories to match your setup*/
    sprintf(eclipse, "eclipse\\eclipse.exe -vm \\WINDOWS\\system32\\javaw.exe");
    spawn_error_check = spawnl(_P_NOWAIT, eclipse_ptr, NULL);
    if (spawn_error_check != 0)
    {
        fprintf(stderr,"Spawn error code: %d\n", spawn_error_check);
        system("pause");
        return 1;
    }           
    return 0;
}

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sprintf(eclipse, "eclipse\\eclipse.exe -vm \\WINDOWS\\system32\\javaw.exe");
spawn_error_check = spawnl(_P_NOWAIT, eclipse_ptr, NULL);

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The executable itself is one argument, and all the command line arguments are separate arguments after that. To signal the end of the arguments, you provide NULL as an argument, like so:

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#include <process.h>

int spawnl( int mode,
            const char * path,
            const char * arg0,
            const char * arg1...,
            const char * argn,
            NULL );

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So you would call:

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spawnl(_P_NOWAIT, "eclipse\\eclipse\.exe", "-vm", "\\WINDOWS\\system32\\javaw.exe", "NULL);

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