Can I create a 'set /p “”=' command with a timer in Cmd?

Question

I want to create a timer for the \'set /p \"\"=\' command so that if you don\'t input something in the required time space it moves to a different label.

Eg.

Answer 1

Squashman's suggestion is the best one that comes to mind for me as well. Save the following .bat script and run it, and see whether it offers the user experience you had in mind.

@echo off
setlocal

set /P "=You have 3 seconds to type 'go': "NUL

    rem // Extended character probably isn't on the keyboard.
    rem // If the result was the extended char, it was timed out.
    if errorlevel 2 goto fail

    rem // visual response of user input w/o new line
    set /P "=%%I"