How to give wait in bat file

JeffG 1, 6 6 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Kravlin Kravlin 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Can you chain? What if you need to wait for a process that the batch file didn't start? Trying to invoke MSBuild which takes like 2 min , and this returns immediately. How to debug this? One shorter way: Install. John Gardeniers John Gardeniers 27k 12 12 gold badges 52 52 silver badges bronze badges.

You could always add a loop to the shutdown routine to check to see if msiexec. But testing it now, I see that batch files actually wait even for GUI applications. I have posted corresponding question: Why GUI application blocks a batch file? I had this problem, added my solution as an answer. Rachit Kumar Rachit Kumar 69 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.

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. That is why I wrote CountDown. Pressing any key will skip the remainder of the count down, allowing the batch file to continue with the next command. Download CountDown.

By default it starts displaying a tooltip which will be visible for 10 seconds or any timeout specified , but the program will terminate immediately after starting the tooltip. And here is the script:. Copy and paste the above code on notepad and save it as Anyname. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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It is hard to help you without more information. How do I change that to say something like 'Press a key to proceed It seems to skip round about to pauses When you press a key. I'm curious as to know the rules of which the pauses are skipped. Nearly the same as Deniz Zoeteman, except this version displays the blinking cursor on the same line as your custom message, as does the normal PAUSE command.

The Deniz Zoeteman solution displays the blinking cursor below your message. You cannot change the text displayed when a pause command is executed. It's bound to the Windows installation's language pack. And for pause commands skipping, that's most likely due to the key still being pressed down while the next pause command already executed small guess though - I don't recall exactly if that's the behaviour of the command.

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