How to run multiple DOS commands in parallel?

Question

How to run multiple dos commands?

I have a for loop, which runs detection of server to detect which server works and is fast. And because there is more servers, I wish not to run all server detections in sequence, but in parallel.

Answer 1

You can execute commands in parallel with start like this:

start "" ping myserver start "" nslookup myserver start "" morecommands 

They will each start in their own command prompt and allow you to run multiple commands at the same time from one batch file.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

I suggest you to see "How do I run a bat file in the background from another bat file?"

Also, good answer (of using start command) was given in "Parallel execution of shell processes" question page here;

But my recommendation is to use PowerShell. I believe it will perfectly suit your needs.