Need to create a 60 minutes delay in my DOS script

[tropics]

Hi everyone

I know I can delay from 5 to 99 seconds using the command line below:

TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,5 >NUL --> it delays for 5 secs

But I am not sure if it is feasible by any other means, to delay as long as 60 minutes.

I'd appreciate if anyone who has had such request before, could put me in the right direction.

Thank you in advance

tropics

[avery_larry]

ping -w 999 -n 3601 127.0.0.1 >nul 2>nul

[tropics]

Hi avery_larry

Could you explain why ping and what the args mean? I ran it by first I replaced 999 with 5 and the prompt didn't come back so, I had to break it with ctl C

Thanks

Tropics

[!k]

why ping and what the args mean?

ping /?

I replaced 999 with 5...

If you wanted a delay for 5 minutes, you had to write it

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ping -w 1000 -n 300 127.0.0.1 >nul

Another way to delay using VBS in batch

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:: begin of batch
echo wscript.sleep wscript.arguments(0)>sleep.vbs 
:: ... some code ...
:: delay 1 sec
cscript sleep.vbs 1000 > nul 
:: ... some code ...
:: delay 5 min
cscript sleep.vbs 300000 > nul 
:: ... some code ...
:: delay 60 min
cscript sleep.vbs 3600000 > nul 
:: ... some code ...
del sleep.vbs
:: end of batch

[tropics]

I decided to use the sleep command in my script since it is going to be running on a server and I have windows resource tool kit installed on the server.

Thanks guys!

[viroid]

Windows 2003 and above all have a command called WAITFOR that can be used to pause for up to 99999 seconds. Its actually used to have server1 wait for a process on server2 to finish, once server2 finishes its process, it broadcast the 'signal' across the network to server1 and then server1 begins/continues processing.

The syntax when using as a pause is

WAITFOR Nothing /t 3600

where "Nothing" is the signal to waitfor, and /t xxx is how long the server will wait for that command.

...v

[adz]

I always use:

ping localhost -n * >nul

* = the seconds you want to delay

[avery_larry]

I always use:

ping localhost -n * >nul

* = the seconds you want to delay

Technically, * should be the number of seconds you want to delay PLUS ONE.

[adz]

I always use:

ping localhost -n * >nul

* = the seconds you want to delay

Technically, * should be the number of seconds you want to delay PLUS ONE.

Ok, on second thought, I saw you using that in one of your examples but never gave attention to it. Thanks for this tip.

[avery_larry]

It's not like it's very accurate anyway.