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I am having a problem using timeout in a batch file. It seems to go into some sort of loop. When I put the following code in a batch file, it just continuously echos "Hello World" until I Ctrl-C to end.

@echo off
echo Hello World
timeout /T 5
pause

I've tried this on both Window 7 and Windows 10 with the same results. If I enter timeout /T 5 in a command line, it works as expected.

Regards,
Dave

Hi dtmenges,

I guess you called your batch file "timeout.bat"?
Think a bit about the name

How about that! Renamed to test.bat and everything is just peachy.

Thanks, Jeb.

Dave