Script will not close terminal

[rob]

ShutdownTerminal=true
Server=ETXCapital-Demo Server
Login=7001248
Password=xxx
EnableNews=false
Script=batchGenSymbolsData
Period=M5
Symbol=SP500_SB
Report=ReportSP500_SBM5
ReplaceReport=true

I have tried:

ShutdownTerminal=1

ShutdownTerminal=true

ShutdownTerminal=True

I cannot get the script to close programmatically. Everything is working other than this issue?

MetaTrader: version 4.00 build 1090, 19th May 2019

I cannot find anything to help me in here:

https://www.metatrader4.com/en/trading-platform/help/service/start_conf_file

[William Roeder]

rob:  I cannot get the script to close programmatically.

If is a script, return from OnStart. Closing the terminal is a different problem (make up your mind,) and not possible in Mt4 IFRC

[rob]

whroeder1:

If is a script, return from OnStart. Closing the terminal is a different problem (make up your mind,) and not possible in Mt4 IFRC

Yes sorry. It is the terminal that I cannot get to close when run through the .ini file as described above. Is there a script example anywhere that I might copy? I have had this build terminating an EA from a .ini file last year but for some reason am unable to replicate it now.

'and not possible in Mt4 IFRC' ??

[rob]

Might help someone operating under linux - wrote a bash script to do the job - long way round but works now

Needs the dummy.txt file created at the end of the MQL4 script:

   //used to close terminal in batch run
   int handle=FileOpen("dummy.txt",FILE_WRITE|FILE_CSV);
   FileClose(handle);

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/rob/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ '('x86')'/MetaTrader\ 4/MQL4/Files/
#make sure no dummyfile exists
[ -e dummy.txt ] && rm -- dummy.txt
#load terminal .ini test file
cd /home/rob/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ '('x86')'/MetaTrader\ 4/
wine start terminal.exe test.ini
#go to directory for metatrader files written
cd /home/rob/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ '('x86')'/MetaTrader\ 4/MQL4/Files/
#echo 'variable symbol: '$1
#echo 'variable timeFrame: '$2
#filename='cumulative_profit_'$1'_'$2'.csv'
filename='dummy.txt'
#echo $filename
until [ -f $filename ]
do
    echo 'No terminating file dummy.txt'
    #dont hog the cpu
    sleep 5
done
echo 'closed dummy file'
terminalProcess='terminal.exe'
echo "killing terminal ... "$terminalProcess
pkill -9 terminal.exe
echo "killed terminal: "$terminalProcess
exit

Used a python script to loop around passing  test.ini files to above bash for further analysis