Consider two bat files.
echo Before
inner.bat
echo After
echo Inner
goto :eof
When I execute outer.bat "After" is not echoed. So "goto :eof" in the inner script terminates the outer script.
Can I rewrite outer.bat to continue execution after calling inner.bat without modifying inner.bat?
Batch files have a single execution context. When you nest batchfile calls like that, the nested file completely replaces the outer/parent batch file's context. There's no record saying that there was a parent batch file, so you simply return to the prompt when the inner file completes.
To be able to return to the outer batch file, you have to do
echo Before
call inner.bat
echo After
