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When writing a batch file to automate something on a Windows box, I've needed to pause its execution for several seconds (usually in a test/wait loop, waiting for a process to start). At the time, the best solution I could find uses ping (I kid you not) to achieve the desired effect. I've found a better write-up of it here , which describes a callable "wait.bat", implemented as follows: @ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 -w 1000 > nul @ping 127.0.0.1 -n %1% -w 1000> nul You can then include calls to wait.bat in your own batch file, passing in the number of seconds to sleep. Apparently the Windows 2003 Resource Kit provides a Unix-like sleep command (at last!). In the meantime, for those of us still using Windows XP, Windows 2000 or (sadly) Windows NT , is there a better way? I modified the sleep.py script in the accepted answer , so that it defaults to one second if no arguments are passed on the command line: import time, sys time.sleep(float(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 1)
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