how to do “press enter to exit” in batch

Question

I am using rake to build my project and I have a build.bat file similar to this:

@echo off
cls
rake

When I double click on build.bat the dos wi

Answer 1

My guess is that rake is a batch program. When you invoke it without call, then control doesn't return to your build.bat. Try:

@echo off
cls
CALL rake
pause