how to do press enter to exit in batch

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I am using rake to build my project and I have a build bat file similar to this    echo off cls rake   When I double click on build bat the dos window pops up and shows all the progress but closes itself when the task is finished  Is there way to do a Console ReadLine so that user can get a chance to see the log   Thanks   Updated   I ve tried below but didn t work  not sure why    echo off cls rake pause

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My guess is that rake is a batch program  When you invoke it without call  then control doesn t return to your build bat  Try    echo off cls CALL rake pause

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Oops    Misunderstood the question     Pause is the way to go  Old answer   you can pipe commands into your patch file     try  build bat  lt  responsefile txt

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Use this snippet    echo off echo something echo  echo press enter to exit pause  gt nul exit

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echo off echo somethink echo Press enter to exit set  p input

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pause   will display      Press any key to continue

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echo off echo Press any key to exit       pause gt nul

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Default interpreters from Microsoft are done in a way  that causes them exit when they reach EOF  If rake is another batch file  command interpreter switches to it and exits when rake interpretation is finished  To prevent this write    echo off cls call rake pause   IMHO  call operator will lauch another instance of intepretator thereby preventing the current one interpreter from switching to another input file

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