.cmd file on Win10 - How to "multi thread" to have actions fire concurrently?

Asked Apr 29 '19 at 20:05

Active Apr 30 '19 at 00:12

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I have a .cmd file, used exclusively on Win10, that has a plain jane FOR loop:

FOR %%P IN (server1,server3,server4,server5,server6) 
    DO (call _deployment.bat %%P deploy %1 %2)

Works great.

I would like to speed up the process, but in a specific way.

Start deploy to server1
Wait 20 seconds
Now start two threads that run concurrently
-- one deploys to server 2 and then when 2 is done, deploys 4
-- one that deploys to 5 and when 5 is done, deploys 6

I looked into using the START command (as described here and elsewhere). But that does not seem to be a direct answer (unless I am missing something). For starters, I would need to break one small cmd file into multiple. Simply changing the CALL command to START does not give me the desired behavior.

What is the cmd file path forward?

edited Apr 30 '19 at 00:12

asked Apr 29 '19 at 20:05

Jonesome Reinstate Monica

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Why are you trying to do this with cmd batch files? Do you enjoy pain? – melpomene Apr 29 '19 at 20:07
@melpomene They do the job for basic stuff. – Jonesome Reinstate Monica Apr 29 '19 at 20:08
So do other tools, and what you're trying to do now is no longer basic. – melpomene Apr 29 '19 at 20:10
You're doing this to deploy things on multiple servers? Why not use Ansible or Chef? – SomethingDark Apr 29 '19 at 23:26

.cmd file on Win10 - How to "multi thread" to have actions fire concurrently?

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