Batch file - Display text for 5 seconds

Question

How can I display my data from x.bat for 5 seconds?

When this code runs, it's impossible for me to see anything, it opens and closes immediately.

@ECHO OFF
:BEGIN
ECHO Authorized user
:END

If I use pause, the user still needs to hit a key to close the screen, that's why this should happen automatically.

@ECHO OFF
:BEGIN
ECHO Authorized user
pause
:END

Thanks

Answer 1

@ECHO OFF
:BEGIN
ECHO Authorized user
timeout 5 >nul
cls
:END

Answer 2

You can grab "sleep.exe" from the Windows Server 2003 resource kit and use sleep [seconds] but the easiest way to get a set delay is to simply ping localhost N+1 times, where N is the number of seconds.

This will sleep for five seconds (there's no delay before the first ping, and a 1s delay after each):

ping -n 6 localhost>nul

Answer 3

SLEEP 5
GOTO:EOF

Would wait for 5 seconds before closing the window.

Answer 4

On Windows Vista and later you can use timeout:

timeout 5 >nul

On ancient Windows versions you need to resort to ping:

ping -n 6 localhost >nul 2>&1

Answer 5

variety of ways to resolve this

timeout /t 5 /nobreak >Nul
::for 5 sec

@PING 1.1.1.1 -n 2 -w 3000>nul
 :: -n 2 for around 5-6 seconds

sleep 5 (EMERGENCY CASE)

Answer 6

An alternative way to use ping, which also seems to be slightly less precise:

ping -n 1 -w 5000 1.0.0.0 >null

That is, convert seconds to milliseconds and use that as an argument of -w parameter. The -n parameter should have the argument of 1. The host should be a knowingly inaccessible IP address.