Closing maya from cmd line after export

[haggi]

If you dont need the UI, you can do it with mayabatch which will be closed automatically after execution is done.
Or you write a temporaray mel script with a quit; at the end and you exectute this script instead of your -command 'file ....'

[berniebernie]

just add after your maya line in the cmdline

taskkill /f /im maya.exe


assuming you're on windows with a cmd batch

[gashworm]

If you don't need the functionality of the UI or the viewport you can run maya through standalone inside the python script. long as maya is in the sys.path it should be able to load maya and execute your script. This is similar to the batch mode
Otherwise you could use
cmds.quit()
cmds.quit(force=True)
example from the docs

import maya.standalone
import maya.OpenMaya as OpenMaya
import sys

def main( argv = None ):
try:
maya.standalone.initialize( name='python' )
except:
sys.stderr.write( "Failed in initialize standalone application" )
raise
sys.stderr.write( "Hello world! (script output)\n" )
OpenMaya.MGlobal().executeCommand( "print \"Hello world! (command script output)\\n\"" )

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

[AdamMax]

Many thanks for all the help.
Making good headway now.

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