How to wait in a batch script

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I am trying to write a batch script and trying to wait 10 seconds between 2 function calls  The command    sleep 10   Does not make the batch file wait for 10 seconds   I am running Windows XP   Note  This is not a complete duplicate of Sleeping in a batch file as the other question is about also about python  while this is about windows batch files

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I actually found the right command to use   its called timeout  http   www ss64 com nt timeout html

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You can ping an address that doesn t exist and specify the desired timeout  ping 192 0 2 2 -n 1 -w 10000  gt  nul  And since the address does not exist  it ll wait 10 000 ms  10 seconds  and return   The -w 10000 part specifies the desired timeout in milliseconds  The -n 1 part tells ping that it should only try once  normally it d try 4 times   The  gt  nul part is appended so the ping command doesn t output anything to screen   You can easily make a sleep command yourself by creating a sleep bat somewhere in your PATH and using the above technique  rem SLEEP BAT - sleeps by the supplied number of seconds   ping 192 0 2 2 -n 1 -w  1000  gt  nul   NOTE  September 2002   The 192 0 2 x address is reserved as per RFC 3330 so it definitely will not exist in the real world  Quoting from the spec   192 0 2 0 24 - This block is assigned as  quot TEST-NET quot  for use in documentation and example code   It is often used in conjunction with domain names example com or example net in vendor and protocol documentation   Addresses within this block should not appear on the public Internet

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I used this   top cls type G  empty txt type I  empty txt timeout  T 500 goto top

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Well  does sleep even exist on your Windows XP box  According to this post  http   malektips com xp dos 0002 html sleep isn t available on Windows XP  and you have to download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit in order to get it   Chakrit s answer gives you another way to pause  too   Try running sleep 10 from a command prompt

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You d better ping 127 0 0 1  Windows ping pauses for one second between pings so you if you want to sleep for 10 seconds  use  ping -n 11 127 0 0 1  gt  nul   This way you don t need to worry about unexpected early returns  say  there s no default route and the 123 45 67 89 is instantly known to be unreachable

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What about    echo off set wait  1 echo waiting  wait  s echo wscript sleep  wait 000  gt  wait vbs wscript exe wait vbs del wait vbs

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