Batch file pause for 10 seconds

Updated my answer to change -n 10 to -n Delay can be interrupted by pressing X. If you want to support Win95 RTM and up you need to detect which platform you are on and use ping or choice. Anders: Yes, that's why I said "if choice is available", thanks for adding which OS lack choice, I wasn't sure anymore. Btw, a workaround is to simply copy choice. Test if your OS has sleep command by simply run: sleep 1 — Charlie. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta.

New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked Related Hot Network Questions. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. 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. I also created a program that pings devices for up and down and a common device that might be on a network and since some of the replacement gear was misconfigured I also scan and alert on that issue too.

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