Why does only the first line of this Windows batch file execute but all three lines execute in a command shell?

Question

I have a batch file that executes three Maven commands, one after the other. Each command can be successfully executed in the script - by itself!. But when I add all three commands to the same file, only the first one executes before the script exits. Any idea why?

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=base -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-base-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=blogger -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-blogger-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=blogger-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-blogger-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true 

Also, if I copy all three commands and paste them into a command shell (cmd.exe), they execute one after the other with no problem. So this is apparently some issue with the dos batch file.

Answer 1

Maven uses batch files to do its business. With any batch script, you must call another script using the call command so it knows to return back to your script after the called script completes. Try prepending call to all commands.

Another thing you could try is using the start command which should work similarly.

Answer 2

Having call helps. However today it didn't.

This is how I solved it:

Bat file contents (if you want to stop batch when one of cmds errors)

cmd1 && ^ cmd2 && ^ cmd3 && ^ cmd4 

Bat file contents (if you want to continue batch when one of cmds errors)

cmd1 & ^ cmd2 & ^ cmd3 & ^ cmd4