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Is it possbile to exit AutoHotkey from the command line?

I've searched the help and not found a method of doing that.

Add the following to the end of your AHK script:
If in a console window you press ALT-Z or type "exitahk" (w/o quotes) and a space or enter, your AHK script terminates.

do you mean windows cmd prompt?

Both answers are interesting. I am interested mostly in TaskKill, which I had forgotten.

Laszlo, When I first read your comment, I completely understood 3 lines out of the four you wrote. I didn't understand this:
::exitahk::
I didn't see any way to find that in the Help, because Windows Help won't search for punctuation. So, for the benefit of anyone who reads this, here is the answer I found eventually:

Hotstrings and Auto-replace

"To define a hotstring, enclose the triggering abbreviation between pairs of colons as in this example:
::btw::by the way

"... a hotstring may also be defined to perform any custom action as in the following examples. Note that the commands must appear beneath the hotstring:
::btw::
MsgBox You typed "btw".
return

:*:]d:: ; This hotstring replaces "]d" with the current date and time via the commands below.
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, M/d/yyyy h:mm tt ; It will look like 9/1/2005 3:53 PM
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return

"Even though the two examples above are not auto-replace hotstrings, the abbreviation you type is erased by default. This is done via automatic backspacing, which can be disabled via the b0 option."

If you just want the program to shut down and your using a GUI... use this.





I use this to reload my scripts, but swap out the Reload for ExitApp and it will do the same thing.