pause / wait

[vtrasikis]

I am trying to find a command for a batch file that would pause / wait for a certain length of time and then continue on, with no user intervention.  I have it starting at boot up time and I need it to wait for a bit till the resources have started.  Any help would be appreciated.   This is for a win-xp system.

[steven32collins]

ping localhost -n 2 > null
this will make that batch file wait for 1 second
fiddle with the number for the lenght of time you want

2 = 1 second
1 = 0.5 seconds

[BatchRocks]

ping localhost -n 2 > null
this will make that batch file wait for 1 second
fiddle with the number for the lenght of time you want

2 = 1 second
1 = 0.5 seconds

I never knew about the 2 = 1 ect. That's why it went so fast on 1! Thanks :O.

ping localhost -n 2 >nul

One l.

[fireballs]

I can't seem to find whether XP has timout, but you could try it. It's not a busy loop like ping and has more features.

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Timeout /?
FB

[macdad-]

just remember that Ping waits in milliseconds, so if you wanted to wait for two seconds, it would be like this

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ping localhost -n 2000 > null

[Helpmeh]

In my opinion, this is a more accurate code:

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ping localhost -n %seconds% -w 1000
That will ping %seconds% waiting for 1000 miliseconds for each ping. More reliable because it won't proceed with pinging or other commands until 1000 ms has passed for each ping.

[BC_Programmer]

I cannot believe they didn't make a Sleep() command just for batch. lazy buggers at microsoft, no doubt.

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#DEFINE WIN32LEANANDMEAN 1
#include <windows.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]);
{
Sleep(atoi(argv[1]);

}


[Dusty]

I cannot believe they didn't make a Sleep() command just for batch. lazy buggers at microsoft, no doubt.

They did, and it's listed, but it has to be extracted from the Resource Kit, see here.  It works well..

[fireballs]

What's wrong with timeout? or does it not work in XP?

FB

[Dias de verano]

What's wrong with timeout? or does it not work in XP?

Google would have told you in about 1 second that the timeout command was introduced in Vista, and is not available by default in earlier Windows versions. But an earlier version is in various Resource Kits, and can be downloaded from many places including here

http://www.dynawell.com/download/reskit/microsoft/win2000/timeout.zip

[BatchFileCommand]

The timout is still better because you have the option of nobreak which makes the keyboard unresponsive.

[BC_Programmer]

CTTY NUL

[BatchFileCommand]

That does what?

[Dias de verano]

That does what?

Plenty in MS-DOS, not much in modern operating systems.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=ctty+nul&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D

Despite what it (mistakenly) says here,

http://www.computerhope.com/cttyhlp.htm

CTTY is not supported in any version of NT.

[macdad-]

crud. well another program may come up, like FINFO, execept this one will sleep like what BC said. And again im reinventing the wheel.. 

[BatchFileCommand]

im reinventing the wheel

How do you suppose to do that.

[BC_Programmer]

im reinventing the wheel

How do you suppose to do that.

because it's been done before. 

[macdad-]

i'll see if i cant whip up something, this time it will have a more throurgh debugging to avoid another bug report 

[BatchFileCommand]

this time it will have a more throurgh debugging to avoid another bug report

I've tried it with pure batch files (78 kb!) I've tried. Even with measly 4 kb, there's always going to spell errors or some kind of problem with administrator access etc.

[macdad-]

you talking about FINFO?

[BC_Programmer]

this time it will have a more throurgh debugging to avoid another bug report

I've tried it with pure batch files (78 kb!) I've tried. Even with measly 4 kb, there's always going to spell errors or some kind of problem with administrator access etc.

If you use a compiled language like VB.NET,VB6, VCPP, or various others... you cannot even compile the program if it has misspellings. Unless of course the typo is still a valid symbol.

[BatchFileCommand]

If you use a compiled language like VB.NET,VB6, VCPP, or various others... you cannot even compile the program if it has misspellings. Unless of course the typo is still a valid symbol.

That is one thing I don't like about that though.

[BC_Programmer]

If you use a compiled language like VB.NET,VB6, VCPP, or various others... you cannot even compile the program if it has misspellings. Unless of course the typo is still a valid symbol.

That is one thing I don't like about that though.

yeah, it's much better if it crashes with a syntax error on the victim... I mean, clients machine. much more professional.

if there are parts of the program that are only executed in extreme conditions, and there is an syntax error... you wouldn't even know until those "extreme conditions" are satisfied. and with 72 pages of batch code, there will be a LOT of unexplored code paths just waiting to throw a interpreter error.

[macdad-]

thats why its smart to seperate the batch programs.