title: In BAT file, how do I start jmeter then wait for it to finish?
body: <p>I'm using window bat file to start JMeter in command line mode, running a test, and print some results.  My bat file isn't waiting for jmeter to finish so it's printing empty results.  Is there any way to wait for JMeter to finish first?</p>
  
  <p>My bat file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@echo off
  setlocal
  
  set "CURRENT_DIR=%cd%"
  if not "%JMETER_HOME%" == "" goto gotHome
  set "JMETER_HOME=%CURRENT_DIR%"
  if exist "%JMETER_HOME%\bin\jmeter.bat" goto okHome
  cd ..
  set "JMETER_HOME=%cd%"
  cd "%CURRENT_DIR%"
  :gotHome
  
  if exist "%JMETER_HOME%\bin\jmeter.bat" goto okHome
  echo The JMETER_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
  echo This environment variable is needed to run this program
  goto end
  :okHome
  
  break&gt;jmeter.log
  SET /P "TestFile=Test File:" || SET "TestFile=MyTestFile.txt"
  echo Running test %TestFile%
  start /B %JMETER_HOME%/bin/jmeter -n -t GenericTest.jmx -JTestDir="%cd%" -JTestFile="%TestFile%"
  echo Test Finished, Printing Result
  type result.txt
  :end
  pause
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Running file output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Test File:
  Running test MyTestFile.txt
  Test Finished, Printing Result
  
  Press any key to continue . . . Creating summariser &lt;summary&gt;
  Created the tree successfully using ConversationTestGeneric.jmx
  Starting the test @ Tue Oct 23 19:32:11 PDT 2018 (1540348331395)
  Waiting for possible Shutdown/StopTestNow/Heapdump message on port 4445
  summary +     16 in 00:00:23 =    0.7/s Avg:    56 Min:     1 Max:   322 Err:     0 (0.00%) Active: 1 Started: 2 Finished: 1
  summary +     15 in 00:00:26 =    0.6/s Avg:    22 Min:     2 Max:    69 Err:     0 (0.00%) Active: 1 Started: 2 Finished: 1
  summary =     31 in 00:00:49 =    0.6/s Avg:    39 Min:     1 Max:   322 Err:     0 (0.00%)
  summary +     11 in 00:00:31 =    0.3/s Avg:    26 Min:     1 Max:   107 Err:     0 (0.00%) Active: 1 Started: 2 Finished: 1
  summary =     42 in 00:01:20 =    0.5/s Avg:    36 Min:     1 Max:   322 Err:     0 (0.00%)
  summary +     28 in 00:00:41 =    0.7/s Avg:    17 Min:     0 Max:    71 Err:     0 (0.00%) Active: 0 Started: 3 Finished: 3
  summary =     70 in 00:02:01 =    0.6/s Avg:    28 Min:     0 Max:   322 Err:     0 (0.00%)
  Tidying up ...    @ Tue Oct 23 19:34:12 PDT 2018 (1540348452863)
  ... end of run
  C:\myDir\
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I wait for JMeter to finish?</p>