Typing a Text File One Line At A Time

Question

I am writing a batch script that can fetch data from various files on a drive, and that bit is all working fine. The problem is that I would like the contents of the file to be typed to the cmd one line at a time.

A bit like this:

Hello, this is the first line of the text file

1 second pause

And this is the second line

etc.

I've tried using a for command, but I could only get that to repeat the first line.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advanced! -Luke

show some codes. no one here is magician to know how u've done things... — nafas, Jul 25 '14 at 08:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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You can find many ways how to delay execution of script depending on your needs in this post:

Sleeping in a batch file

Hope it helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered Jul 25 '14 at 08:46

Jan Kukacka

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '14 at 08:48

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timeout is in Vista and above

@echo off
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in ("file.txt") do (
echo %%a
timeout /t 1 /nobreak
)
pause

answered Jul 25 '14 at 08:48

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Typing a Text File One Line At A Time

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