How to prevent a bat file exiting early?

Question

I'm running a maven plugin (this is just a new process) as part of a bat file.The plugin command causes the bat file to exit so the subsequent commands do not run. Is there a command or some other way to prevent the bat file quitting too soon ?

Here is the bat file :

ECHO Updating Version
mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=1.2

ECHO this echo does not occur

Perhaps I could use the 'call' command as referenced in How do you stop a Windows Batch file from exiting early? but I would like to run all of the code within one bat file.

Answer 1

If mvn is a batch file, then you need to precede it with a call, or else it will terminate on that line.