command script 3

[ykfc]

I need to create a command file (batch file) and run it from the command prompt. I am familiar how to create this.

However between two particular command lines, I want to insert a time gap between them so that the second command is only run, say one minute after the first one. Insert of creating something myself, I wonder if there is already a build-in Windows command for it.

 

[Eguy]

ykfc,

PING will wait for a number of milliseconds between two PINGS before giving a time-out if the -w switch is used.

For example:

PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 60000 >NUL

will cause the execution to pause 60 seconds (60,000 milliseconds).

Just be sure that the address that you PING is NOT a valid address on your system.

Ed

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[mattjurado]

You can also break the batch file into 2 separate files. Determine how long it takes to run the first file, then schedule the second one to run a minute or two after that.

Matt J.

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[TurboTTypeWE4]

What you can do is download the Microsoft 2000 Resource Kit or download just the sleep.exe from

http://www.computerhope.com/download/utility/sleep.exe

The command you would use then is sleep #seconds

Ping site.com
sleep 15
ping site2.com
This would sleep for 15 seconds before ping site2

Or the other way to do it if you want to be prompted also is to use the timeout.exe. This is also in the resource kit or you can get it from

http://thethin.net/timeout.zip

This will do the same function as sleep but also incase you want to sometimes run immediately you can just hit any key.