Launch Windows Terminal with multiple commands sequentially [duplicate]

Question

I want keep WindowsTerminal screen remaining after running command for debugging purpose. To achieve this, try running the pause command after the command completes.

wt new-tab powershell "ping stackoverflow.com;pause"

But in WindowsTerminal use ; as a delimiter for separating commands in the wt command line. Even try escape it not work

In many post they are only interested in running commands on multiple panels.

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/command-line-arguments?tabs=windows#examples-of-multiple-commands-from-powershell
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63396994/how-to-launch-windows-terminal-with-multiple-commands

I achieve this by another way with powershell's -NoExit flag.

wt new-tab powershell -NoExit -c "ping stackoverflow.com"

But I still have a question to run multiple commands sequentially in WindowsTerminal.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understood well what you want to achieve, try this:

Make a main.bat where you will going to launch multiple .bat files (having multiple commands sequentially) in separate WindowsTerminal tabs.

example of main.bat:

wt -w 0 new-tab start powershell.exe -NoExit c:\batch\commands1.bat 
wt -w 0 new-tab start powershell.exe -NoExit c:\batch\commands2.bat
wt -w 0 new-tab start powershell.exe -NoExit c:\batch\commands3.bat

example of commands1.bat:

ping stackoverflow.com
ping google.com
echo finished

etc.

Running main.bat will open WindowsTerminal with 3 new tabs, in everyone of which the specified commands{0-3}.bat batch file will be executed without closing them after command lines finish executing.

Hope this helps.