In the command prompt, entering PowerShell.exe will start a PowerShell interactive prompt inside of cmd.
How can one exit this and return to cmd.exe? Neither ctrl+c, exit(), nor the break button work.
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Ctrl-Break works.
exit() might work, but calling functions with parentheses is not PowerShell syntax, so it's trying to use () as a function parameter, but () is not anything in PowerShell so it's that which generates the error message. exit(1) works, because (1) is a valid expression itself which evaluates to 1 so this is the same as exit 1, and this command sets the %ERRORLEVEL% return value in the cmd environment.
It's described in help about_Language_Keywords:
Exit
Causes Windows PowerShell to exit a script or a Windows PowerShell instance.
When you run 'powershell.exe -File ', you can only set the %ERRORLEVEL% variable to a value other than zero by using the exit statement.
answered Mar 13, 2017 at 23:46
TessellatingHeckler
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Ethouris
It somehow doesn't work, if I run PowerShell from inside a
*.bat file: PowerShell "ForEach($P in Get-Process steamwebhelper) {$P.ProcessorAffinity=1}; exit" After this command it hangs up. Additionally, I run it from Cygwin terminal and if I don't Ctrl-C fast enough, the terminal freezes.The correct command is exit, this will exit the current PowerShell prompt and return you to cmd.exe.
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JOJO
Can you please tell, after powershell closes ,how can I exit form cmd.exe through batch job. Basically I am writing a batch jon to trucate the data from file.But the scrip is not closing cmd window. @echo off powershell.exe -noexit -Command "Clear-Content -Force E:\Logs\pgbouncer.log; exit %ERRORLEVEL%"
Joe Johnston
@Madhu add Exit to the bottom of your batch job. So Exit in powershell and Exit in the batch. hth
The only way I could get this working inside a ".ps1" file was:
[System.Environment]::Exit(0)
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stop-process -Id $PID
to close the powershell window completely.
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type cmd in powershell command line, eg
PS C:\Users\ziyati\Gitter> cmd Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1413] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\ziyati\Gitter>
that all !
