Delay Code to start the exe file

Question

I have this bat file to just kill and start the file, but I need a delay.

TASKKILL /F /IM "file.exe"
(what is the code to delay 1 minute before executing the code below?)
start /d "path" file.exe

Can you please help me? Thanks

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1672338/how-to-sleep-for-5-seconds-in-windowss-command-prompt-or-dos — Sakthi Kumar, Nov 22 '12 at 10:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '12 at 11:07

2

You can use ping as @Krister suggested

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 60

of if you are using Vista and above you can use the much easier timeout

timeout /t 60

answered Nov 22 '12 at 11:07

Bali C

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 22 '12 at 10:11

1

I have used the ping command to achive this, you could ping an invalid host and set the timeout for the command to your desired delay.

@echo off
ping 1.2.3.4 -n 1 -w 60000 >NUL
# this command will be run after 60000ms
echo 'running';
pause

answered Nov 22 '12 at 10:11

Cyclonecode

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