Windows batch sleep

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How do I get a Windows batch script to wait a few seconds   sleep and wait don t seem to work  unrecognized command

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The Windows 2003 Resource Kit has a sleep batch file  If you ever move up to PowerShell  you can use   Start-Sleep -s  lt time to sleep gt    Or something like that

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Heh  Windows is uhm    interesting  This works   choice  T 1  d y  gt  NUL   choice presents a prompt asking you yes or no   d y makes it choose yes   t 1 makes it wait a second before typing it   gt  NUL squashes output

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Microsoft has a sleep function you can call directly       Usage   sleep      time-to-sleep-in-seconds             sleep  -m  time-to-sleep-in-milliseconds             sleep  -c  commited-memory ratio  1 -100     You can just say sleep 1 for example to sleep for 1 second in your batch script   IMO Ping is a bit of a hack for this use case

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You can try  ping -n XXX 127 0 0 1  gt nul   where XXX is the number of seconds to wait  plus one

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timeout  t 10  nobreak  gt  NUL    t specifies the time to wait in seconds   nobreak won t interrupt the timeout if you press a key  except CTRL-C    gt  NUL will suppress the output of the command

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I rely on JScript  I have a JScript file like this      This is sleep js WScript Sleep  WScript Arguments  0        And inside a batch file I run it with CScript  usually it is  SystemRoot  system32 cscript exe   rem This is the calling inside a BAT file to wait for 5 seconds cscript  nologo sleep js 5000

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For a pure cmd exe script  you can use this piece of code that returns the current time in hundreths of seconds    gettime set hh  time  0 2  set mm  time  3 2  set ss  time  6 2  set cc  time  -2  set  A  1 hh 360000 mm 6000 ss 100 cc goto  eof   You may then use it in a wait loop like this    wait call  gettime wait0  w2 call  gettime wait1 set  A waitt   wait1-wait0 if  waitt  lss  1 goto  w2 goto  eof   And putting all pieces together    echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion  call  gettime t1 echo  t1  call  wait  1 call  gettime t2 echo  t2  set  A tt    t2-t1  100 echo  tt  goto  eof   wait call  gettime wait0  w2 call  gettime wait1 set  A waitt   wait1-wait0 if  waitt  lss  1 goto  w2 goto  eof   gettime  set hh  time  0 2  set mm  time  3 2  set ss  time  6 2  set cc  time  -2  set  A  1 hh 360000 mm 6000 ss 100 cc goto  eof   For a more detailed description of the commands used here  check HELP SET and HELP CALL information

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Personally I use a Perl one-liner   perl -e  sleep 10     for a 10-second wait  Chances are you ll already have Perl installed on a development machine as part of your git installation  if not you will have to install it  for example  from ActiveState or Strawberry  but it s one of those things I install anyway   Alternatively  you can install a sleep command from GnuWin32

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To wait 10 seconds   choice  T 10  C X  D X  N

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I don t know why those commands are not working for you  but you can also try timeout  timeout  lt delay in seconds gt

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RJLsoftware has a small utility called DelayExec exe  With this you can execute a delayed start of any program in batches and Windows registry  most useful in    Windows     Run registry    Usage example   delayexec  C  WINDOWS system32 notepad exe  10   or as a sleep command   delayexec  nothing  10

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I just wrote my own sleep which called the Win32 Sleep API function

[windows] Windows batch: sleep

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