When the program is over, I want it to say "Press any key to continue..." so I can scroll thru the output.
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I believe you are looking for the command "pause". It should ask you to press any key.
You can even appear to change the prompt. Instead of just using the pause statement, you can:
echo "Your message here" pause > nul This gets rid of the original pause message and inserts yours.
Jacob
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Joey
That checkbox hasn't been there since the old days of Windows 98.
TheJacobTaylor
Ok, now I am feeling old. Good catch.
In Windows/DOS batch files:
pause This prints a nice Press any key to continue . . . message
Or, if you don't want to show anything message, do this instead:
pause >nul 
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Create a shortcut to your batch file.
Right click on the file and select "Properties".
In the tab "Shortcut" is the target, something like this:
C:\folder\file.bat
Change it by this one:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /K "C:\folder\file.bat"
where "C:\Windows\System32" is the folder where cmd.exe is located, which may be another according to your Windows installation.
Then you can run the shortcut.
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A part of me says that "pause" in the batch file should also do the trick. But also give the /K switch a try as well.
HTH
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If you want the console to remain open, you can add the following at the end of batch file -
call cmd
This will open console with in the same one with all your environment variables set in your batch file and you can work in it.
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you need to type in pause, which when you make it to the end, it should say
Press any key to continue . . .
but only if you put it at the end, because if you don't, it will pause it at the place you put it. Don't try '/k' because it doesn't work
