how to do press enter to exit in batch

Question

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

User · Accepted Answer

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.

User · Answer

echo off echo Press any key to exit       pause gt nul

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

pause   will display      Press any key to continue

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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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