Pause for n seconds

[scienceguru1.bat]

Does anyone know of a way to have the script pause for n seconds? thanks.

[aGerman]

Often used: PINGing the own machine:

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ping -n 11 localhost>nul

... for a delay of 10 seconds (one more pings than seconds).

Regards
aGerman

[scienceguru1.bat]

How do the variables work?

[aGerman]

Don't get it. There is no variable

[scienceguru1.bat]

How to adjust the wait.

[aGerman]

As I wrote: "one more pings than seconds".
number of pings = number of seconds + 1

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@echo off &setlocal
set /p "x=Enter the number of seconds: "

set /a x+=1

echo delay start %time%
ping -n %x% localhost>nul
echo delay end %time%

pause>nul

It takes approx. 200ms to call ping.exe, thats why the delay is a little longer.

Regards
aGerman

[!k]

scienceguru1.bat
Need to create a 60 minutes delay

[scienceguru1.bat]

thanks, everyone. i'll test it when i can get on my computer. it should work.

[scienceguru1.bat]

Thanks everyone, it works