what is the dos command that acts like 'sleep'?

[pho01]

what is the dos command that acts like a sleep command? tnx

 

[Lemon13]

try "pause". this will stop the batch until you press a key.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Do you mean the pause command used in batch files?

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[pho01]

no, that's not what I'm looking for. somethings like - described in english:

connect to a drive
do something
write something to a file
wait for 60s for the job to complete
do a second task

i want this to run automatically as a scheduled task, but need to wait some times for the previous task to complete first, then do a second. otherwise dos complains because the previous task didn't have enough time to complete just yet.

so something like a sleep command in unix shell. does anybody know if dos supports it?

 

[Claudek]

Windows does have a sleep command but it is available separately in the resource kit tools.
You can get the latest version from microsoft at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

The above link is for the windows 2003 resource kit tools and should work on win2K. If not sure , you can always download the Win2k Resource kit tools . I believe that NT had the same tool as well.



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[markdmac]

You should look at doing your task as a VBScript file. Then you can actually use the wscript.sleep command.

Give some details on what you actually want to accomplish and I can help you with the script code.

But, based on what you are asking for above, here is code that will do what you ask.

'======================================
'
' NAME: <filename>
'
' AUTHOR: Mark D. MacLachlan , The Spider's Parlor
' URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.thespidersparlor.com[/URL]
' DATE  : 6/29/2004
'
' COMMENT: Example script
'
'======================================

Dim WSHNEtwork, WSHShell, fso, ts
Const ForWriting = 2


Set WSHNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set WSHShell = wscript.createObject("wscript.shell")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Connect to a drive
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "U:", "\\server\users",True

'Do Something
Call WSHShell.Run("cmd.exe /C Del C:\Temp\*.tmp /q")

'Go to sleep for a while
Wscript.sleep 500

'Write something to a file
Set ts = fso.CreateTextFile ("C:\ActionLog.txt", ForWriting)
report = "All temp files in C:\Temp Deleted"
ts.write report

'Do Something Else
Call WSHShell.Run("cmd.exe /C Del C:\Windows\Temp\*.tmp /q")

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Stiddy]

in all of the windows resource kits 'wait.exe' is available



wait 60

 

[troyu]

One option is to create a separate batch file called wait.bat. Put the following in the file:

Rem ##Issue "choice" statement and default to "N" after %1% seconds.
@CHOICE /T:N,%1% > NUL

Then, in your main script, call the wait.bat script with the following statement wait nn

This will call the wait script, issue a prompt for Y or N, and when no answer is given, default to N after nn seconds.

Also, the sleep.exe command is available, and is called as follows:

sleep nn

with nn being the # of seconds to sleep.

sleep and choice are both available with the Windows Resource Kit.

Check out

http://www.ss64.com/nt/index.html

for listing of DOS Commands.