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So I wrote a tool with some batch commands, nothing specific. In the beginning the user can choose which task to perform thanks to a loop.

In that loop I included the "Q" option, as to quit the batch file. When this happens, it gets written to a logfile to check when the user started the script(s), and when it ended.

The issue is this only happens if the user actually quits/exits with Q. If (s)he quits by just closing the batch file, this won't be logged.

In short: how can I record when the user has quit the batch file without using the build-in function?

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  • Unless some other process/batch file is monitoring it, you can't log the time it is terminated by a user clicking the close icon. Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 13:55
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    On second thought - You could have your batch file update the timestamp on a temp file regularly and the file will retain the date and time of the last time it was updated. It would then normally require manual intervention to get the time/date - but that would give you an approximate time of when the batch file was closed. Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 15:15

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a batch file can't receive the "exiting"-event. What you can do is:

  1. Make a launcher.bat file, that starts the original (yourfilename).bat file with:

    start /wait (yourfilename).bat

  2. the launcher.bat file will now wait until you close the second (yourfilename).bat file. place your log-information on the next line of launcher.bat

  3. convert launcher.bat to launcher.exe using bat to exe converter (and make it invisible).

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Yep, I know about that technique but wanted to avoid it. Thanks though!

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