[idealone]

Hi guys,
I need to use sleep or wait for few seconds between commands, i am using win XP, so i read that sleep command is not recognized, they say ping command works...but not sure how to use it!!
So can anyone lighten me up whats the best way to solve this issue..

batch file:

start /b java -jar Y:\selenium-server-0.9.2/selenium-server.jar #this command starts my server

# (I would want to wait/sleep for 20 or 30 seconds before going to next command)

start /b run myfile.exe # this is my second command to run my program


Thanks in Advance

[gunsmokingman]

idealone, on Mar 4 2008, 03:46 PM, said:

Hi guys,
I need to use sleep or wait for few seconds between commands, i am using win XP, so i read that sleep command is not recognized, they say ping command works...but not sure how to use it!!
So can anyone lighten me up whats the best way to solve this issue..

batch file:

start /b java -jar Y:\selenium-server-0.9.2/selenium-server.jar #this command starts my server

# (I would want to wait/sleep for 20 or 30 seconds before going to next command)

start /b run myfile.exe # this is my second command to run my program


Thanks in Advance

Try this

Quote

[code]@Echo Off

CLS

Mode 55,7

Color F9

Title Connect To Server

start /b java -jar Y:\selenium-server-0.9.2/selenium-server.jar

Echo.

Echo Processing Please Wait......

ping -n 30 127.0.0.1>nul

start /b run myfile.exe[/code]

[idealone]

gunsmokingman, on Mar 4 2008, 10:21 AM, said:

idealone, on Mar 4 2008, 03:46 PM, said:

Hi guys,
I need to use sleep or wait for few seconds between commands, i am using win XP, so i read that sleep command is not recognized, they say ping command works...but not sure how to use it!!
So can anyone lighten me up whats the best way to solve this issue..

batch file:

start /b java -jar Y:\selenium-server-0.9.2/selenium-server.jar #this command starts my server

# (I would want to wait/sleep for 20 or 30 seconds before going to next command)

start /b run myfile.exe # this is my second command to run my program


Thanks in Advance

Try this

Quote

[code]@Echo Off

CLS

Mode 55,7

Color F9

Title Connect To Server

start /b java -jar Y:\selenium-server-0.9.2/selenium-server.jar

Echo.

Echo Processing Please Wait......

ping -n 30 127.0.0.1>nul

start /b run myfile.exe[/code]

Thanks for your reply,
Is there any other means of waiting apart from ping, as using ping command is blocked in my company.

[Yzöwl]

Yes, take a look at this!

[idealone]

Yzöwl, on Mar 5 2008, 11:50 PM, said:

Yes, take a look at this!

Super
GREAT WORK!!!!!

[war59312]

timeout.exe is easy enough..

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