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JT
Hi, I wont to paus a batch file for a few seconds, what command do I use?
( OS WinXP)
( OS WinXP)
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Ray McCormick
JT said:
Use sleep.exe
This is available from, amongst others,
http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm
(for 9x/ME/2000/XP)
Regards
Ray
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Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)
HiJT said:
Alternatively, do a sleep using ping.exe (not CPU intensive).
Sleep approx. 5 seconds (number behind -n is seconds +1):
ping.exe -n 6 127.0.0.1 >nul
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Paul R. Sadowski
Ray McCormick said:
That program is a power management tool.
My little package contains the kind of sleep command he wants.
http://www.paulsadowski.com/WSH/cmdprogs.htm
Sleep.exe
Waits for specified number of seconds to pass.
sleep: sleep-time-in-seconds
Example:
rem sleep for 5 minutes
sleep 300
J
JT
thanks to all I'll try out the sleep.exe
Torgeir Bakken (MVP) said:
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Ray McCormick
Oops! Wrong one.
sleep.exe from Gammadyne is 124k,
sleep.exe from Sadowski is 83.2k and
the one I have been using for some time (same syntax as Paul
Sadowski's; I did not make a note of where I got it from) is
25.4k !
I did not know there were so many programs of the same name - a
good job someone is awake.
Regards
Ray
sleep.exe from Gammadyne is 124k,
sleep.exe from Sadowski is 83.2k and
the one I have been using for some time (same syntax as Paul
Sadowski's; I did not make a note of where I got it from) is
25.4k !
I did not know there were so many programs of the same name - a
good job someone is awake.
Regards
Ray
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Paul R. Sadowski
Ray McCormick said:
The one from the resource kit is just over 5K.
About 200 bytes
args = WScript.Arguments.Count
if args <> 1 then
Wscript.Echo "usage: " & Wscript.ScriptName & " time-to-sleep-in-seconds"
wscript.Quit
end if
wscript.sleep 1000 * WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
85 bytes:
:sleep
:: sleep for x number of seconds
ping -n %1 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
goto :EOF
Problem with these is software firewalls and AV's my block them and stop
them from working.