timer shorter than a second[BATCH]

Question

I can do this:

timeout /t 1 /nobreak

But what I can't do is this:

timeout /t 0.5 /nobreak

All I want is to set the wait time shorter than a second. Any ideas?

possible duplicate of [How to sleep for 5 seconds in Windows's Command Prompt? (or DOS)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1672338/how-to-sleep-for-5-seconds-in-windowss-command-prompt-or-dos) — NikolayK, Feb 24 '15 at 09:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '15 at 09:35

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Why not use sleep:

sleep -m 500

Which would sleep for half a second.

answered Feb 24 '15 at 09:35

Monacraft

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