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[Futurepower(R)]

Is it possbile to exit AutoHotkey from the command line?

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

[Laszlo]

Add the following to the end of your AHK script:

[k3ph]

do you mean windows cmd prompt?

[Guest]

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

[Futurepower(R)]

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."

[Aybra]

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