cmd.exe - typing exit

[Deleted User]

For all you command prompt guru's, who types exit? Who just closes the window? I see exit typed in CBT Nuggets and wondered what the point was. To cleanly close and flush buffers I guess?

RobTang

its for regular batch or powershell scripting, if you want to terminate the current execution of the script file.

david78

I type exit.

kwikbreaks

and I don't. It's completely irrelevant.

Oh no!! Hold on!! My other machine just caught fire when I only closed the command box instead of typing exit!!! Oh woe thrice woe.

mr_fishbulb

I'm polite and say bye to my ftp prompt.

For my nslookup I have to exit.

My telnet session on the other hand, I just tell to feck off.

[Deleted User]

RobTang wrote: »

its for regular batch or powershell scripting, if you want to terminate the current execution of the script file.

But what about the times when people use it to close a simple cmd.exe window? Any point there? As a side note powershell looks to be the way Mircosoft are going. Something to learn sharpish.

kwikbreaks wrote: »

and I don't. It's completely irrelevant.

Oh no!! Hold on!! My other machine just caught fire when I only closed the command box instead of typing exit!!! Oh woe thrice woe.

I hope it wasn't a production DC!

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

I'm polite and say bye to my ftp prompt.

For my nslookup I have to exit.

My telnet session on the other hand, I just tell to feck off.

Like the manners.

totalsolutions

I'm out of here, exit.

RobTang

Deleted_User wrote: »

But what about the times when people use it to close a simple cmd.exe window?.

Id be dead surprised if both exit and the close button didn't share a common codebase.

IE I reckon the close button just kills the current process and calls exit itself OR both call a shared routine to close the current shell.



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John_Gray

If you're that keen on finding out what happens when you close a Command Prompt window by different methods, you can spend many happy hours looking at the results from Mike Russinovich's ProcMon (Process Monitor)...

esuhl

I just hit CTRL+D and wonder why the window hasn't closed... ;-)

johnsm

If you're already with your hands over the keyboard it might be slightly quicker to type exit or you might just prefer to do that.

The command is primarily for terminating a script.