Well, almost any key: Ctrl, Shift, NumLock etc. This is fine for interactive use, but sometimes we just want to delay the batch file for a fixed number of seconds, without user interaction. It waits for the specified number of seconds and then exits. It waits for the specified number of seconds or a keypress , and then exits. Download the PMSleep sources.
Download the Wait. For longer delay times especially, it would be nice to let the user know what time is left.
Lastly, I was coding a batch file. I want to know what's up if I have something like: echo off cls pause pause pause pause It seems to skip round about to pauses When you press a key. Ansgar Wiechers k 23 23 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It always pauses 4 times, waiting for 4 key presses, as expected. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Make sure to set the answer to the accepted answer if this is the thing you need : — Deniz Zoeteman.
Deniz Zoeteman Deniz Zoeteman 9, 24 24 gold badges 67 67 silver badges 96 96 bronze badges. R Dub R Dub 5 5 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Option 1: echo off echo Press any key to continue or Ctrl-C to abort.
Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Suspends the processing of a batch program, displaying the prompt, Press any key to continue. If you press Y for yes in response to this message, the batch program ends and control returns to the operating system. You can insert the pause command before a section of the batch file that you might not want to process.
In this example, all the files on the disk in Drive A are copied to the current directory. The time is defined in Seconds. The above commands will break the timeout process on pressing any key. I created a script to change IPs in the stack to commonly used for a project and needed a vanilla set of commands used in CMD to make the change then pause and display that the IPs had changed to the 5 needed for the project. So using commands that wont work in every version of windows would not be advisable.
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