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Mehdi Souregi
Mehdi Souregi

Reputation: 3265

Batch File to execute all .exe in a folder with timer

I've searched over this website and i know now how to excecute all .exe in a folder, and this is how i can do that (with batch file .bat) : 

for /r "." %%a in (*.exe) do start "" "%%~fa"

Is there a way to execute them with a timer (2s for instance) between each .exe file ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1596

Answers (3)

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 79982

for /r "." %%a in (*.exe) do start "" "%%~fa"&timeout /t 2 >nul

& separates commands, >nul directs the timeout conversation to the bit-bucket so it isn't seen.

Upvotes: 2

J.Baoby
J.Baoby

Reputation: 2231

2 options to produce a time out in batch are:

  1. use timeout /t SEC where you replace SEC with the seconds you want it to time. Add the /nobreak option if you don't want the user to stop the timer by pressing any key. But be careful with this one: it doesn't guarantee a SEC seconds timer, it only guarentees it will make the system sleep for a timeinterval between SEC and SEC - 1 seconds
  2. A second more accurate option is to use ping -n S 127.0.0.1 > nul. As there is 1 second between each ping this will result in a timeout of S-1 seconds

So for 2 seconds you could do:

for /r "." %%a in (*.exe) do (
    start "" "%%~fa"
    timeout /t 2 /nobreak
    REM Or ping -n 3 127.0.0.1 > nul`
)

Upvotes: 2

jordiburgos
jordiburgos

Reputation: 6302

You can use timeout command. To wait 2 seconds, just use this between each of the .exe files.

timeout /T 2

Upvotes: 1

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