Need assistance with a batch that waits 5 min and then returns a 0 on success

In windows resource kits there were SLEEP / TIMOUT commands.

Another trick can be to use the delay between ping attempts.

So:    ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
Will sleep 9 seconds. (9 intervals between attempts).

So ping 127.0.0.1 -n 301 >nul
would wait 5 minutes.
The next batch file would do the trick:

@echo off
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 301 >nul
exit 0

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Create a small BAT script that has a one liner to call powershell and use it's delay command, like:

powershell -command "start-sleep -s 300"

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»bp

Hello, thanks for the reply. No need to ping or do anything special just wait 5 min then after that time return a 0 on success. I was told that if the script returns 0 on success then system will proceed with the shutdown.

ping waits 1 second between two pings... ping 127.0.0.1 if ping localhost aka ping your own system. ==> will always work.

301 Intervals of 1 second = 5 minutes.... So you don't need to PING something, you need the 300 intervals of 1 second. ( that is define 301 ICMP messages with 1 second in between).
See above script... it will wait 5 minutes and exit 0 as requested.

Alternatively the Powersehll above may work for you if you have powershell on your system.

The powershell approach isn't "anything special", the problem is that the standard BAT script language didn't have a command to do a delay.

In newer versions of Windows, like Windows 10, you can do the below.  So try that on the computer involved and see if it exists/works there.

timeout /t 300 /nobreak>nul

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»bp

Ok I see. Would the powershell be returning a 0 on exit?

By default when a BAT script ends it will return 0.

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»bp

Hi Noci - to your code above can we add something to create a txt log file somewhere in the root drive. the exit 0 is not doing what the vendor is saying should do and I need to know that the script is being executed. by adding the creation of a log I would be able to know if at least the script is executed. thank you!