How to create an infinite loop in Windows batch file

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This is basically what I want in a batch file  I want to be able to re-run  Do Stuff  whenever I press any key to go past the  Pause      while true       Do Stuff     Pause     Looks like there are only for loops available and no while loops in batch  How do I create an infinite loop then

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Unlimited loop in one-line command for use in cmd windows   FOR  L  N IN    DO  echo Oops

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How about using good    old goto    loop  echo Ooops  goto loop   See also this for a more useful example

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Another better way of doing it    LOOP timeout  T 1  NOBREAK    pause or sleep x seconds also valid call myLabel if not ErrorLevel 1 goto  LOOP   This way you can take care of errors too

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A really infinite loop  counting from 1 to 10 with increment of 0  You need infinite or more increments to reach the 10   for  L   n in  1 0 10  do     echo do stuff   rem    can t be leaved with a goto  hangs    rem    can t be stopped with exit  b  hangs    rem    can be stopped with exit   rem    can be stopped with a syntax error   call  stop     stop call    stop 2 gt nul     stop    creates a syntax error  quits the batch   This could be useful if you need a really infinite loop  as it is much faster than a goto  loop version because a for-loop is cached completely once at startup

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read help GOTO  and try   again do it goto again

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Here is an example of using the loop   echo off cls   begin  set  P M Input text to encode md5  press ENTER to exit   if  M    M1  goto end  echo  set  p    M     openssl md5  set M1  M  Goto begin   This is the simple batch i use when i need to encrypt any message into md5 hash on Windows openssl required   and the program would loyally repeat itself except given Ctrl C or empty input

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