How to prevent batch window from closing when error occurs?

Question

I'm trying to write batch script to create a folder if it does not already exist. Following up the online examples, below is my script.

The problem is; first pause works, then probably due to syntax error the window closes even before reaches to the second pause, so I can't really tell which part of my script is wrong.

Could anyone show me how to prevent closing window so that I can see what's on the window?

@echo off  :copy theme images over :designer echo copying theme images over... pause if not exist "%K2DIR%\K2 SmartForms Runtime\Styles\Themes\Sharepoint 2013\rich_text" (     md "%K2DIR%\K2 SmartForms Runtime\Styles\Themes\Sharepoint 2013\rich_text333" )  pause 

Answer 1

You could put this line at the beginning of the batch file:

if not defined in_subprocess (cmd /k set in_subprocess=y ^& %0 %*) & exit ) 

What this line does is, the first time you run it, it re-launches itself in a subprocess that doesn't exit after it finishes running the batch file.