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

Use this snippet:

@echo off
echo something
echo.
echo press enter to exit
pause >nul
exit

Answer 2

@echo off
echo somethink
echo Press enter to exit
set /p input=

Answer 3

pause

will display:

Press any key to continue . . .

Answer 4

Default interpreters from Microsoft are done in a way, that causes them exit when they reach EOF. If rake is another batch file, command interpreter switches to it and exits when rake interpretation is finished. To prevent this write:

@echo off
cls
call rake
pause

IMHO, call operator will lauch another instance of intepretator thereby preventing the current one interpreter from switching to another input file.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

@echo off
echo Press any key to exit . . .
pause>nul