SLEEP.exe (Resource Kit)

Add a fixed delay to a batch file

Syntax
      SLEEP time
Key
   time : the number of seconds to pause

For example:
To pause for an hour before running the next command in a batch file:

SLEEP 3600

Alternative
A fixed delay can also be produced by the PING command with a loopback address:

e.g. for a delay of 60 seconds:
PING -n 61 127.0.0.1>nul

See Clay Calvert's newsgroup posting for a full explanation of this technique.

"I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them" Jay McInerney

Related Commands:

TIMEOUT - Delay that allows the user to continue
WAIT - the same as sleep but with noises
WScript.Sleep - Sleep

Equivalent Linux BASH commands:

crontab - Schedule a command to run at a later time