Figured out how to keep the cmd window open, i.e. stop it from closing.

[jinxx]

Probably not news to most of you but took me ages to figure out, to run a cmd window without it closing itself use:

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    shellexec cmd.exe /k $$1

because you're running the /k flag on cmd.exe it won't close until cmd.exe "exits" via you closing it. As opposed to running the /k on your application, which for something like ipconfig just instantly closes

[dreftymac]

This is a good reminder, thanks for the post.