https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Running-hadoop-in-background/m-p/104023#M66920 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/13554/zoro07500.html" nodeid="13554">@Maher Hattabi</A></P><P>In Windiws there is "START" command that can be used to work similar to "&amp;" in unix. Did you try that? </P><P>Try to use the "/B" switch, like this: </P><PRE>C:\&gt; start /B start-dfs.cmd</PRE><P>.</P><P>Or else you may try to run refer to the approach mentioned in the following link:</P><P><A href="http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/run-bat-files-invisibly-without-displaying-command-prompt/" target="_blank">http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/run-bat-files-invisibly-without-displaying-command-prompt/</A></P> Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:56:37 GMT jsensharma 2017-02-14T16:56:37Z