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I want to add time delay in my batch file. The batch file will be running silently at backgorund. Please help me.
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Type in your command. TIMEOUT — Type timeout time where "time" is replaced by the number of seconds to delay. For example, typing in timeout 30 will delay your batch file for 30 seconds.
The Sleep/Wait Command is a very useful command that is used to pause for a set amount of time while a batch script is being executed. To put it another way, this command makes it easier to run a command for a set amount of time.
You can insert the pause command before a section of the batch file that you might not want to process. When pause suspends processing of the batch program, you can press CTRL+C and then press Y to stop the batch program.
The correct way to sleep in a batch file is to use the timeout command, introduced in Windows 2000.
timeout 5
to delay
timeout 5 >nul
to delay without asking you to press any key to cancel
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You want to use timeout. timeout 10 will sleep 10 seconds
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ping localhost -n (your time) >nul
example
@echo off
title Test
echo hi
ping localhost -n 3 >nul && :: will wait 3 seconds before going next command (it will not display)
echo bye! && :: still wont be any spaces (just below the hi command)
ping localhost -n 2 >nul && :: will wait 2 seconds before going to next command (it will not display)
@exit
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