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.
I took the answer at this post and slightly modified it in order to fulfill this request.
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
rem Execute a SET /P command with time out
rem Antonio Perez Ayala
rem If this file is re-executed as pipe's right side, go to it
if "%~1" equ "TimeoutMonitor" goto %1
del InputLine.txt 2> NUL
(
set /P "input=You have 3 seconds to type 'go': " > CON
> InputLine.txt call set /P "=%%input%%" < NUL
) 2> NUL | "%~F0" TimeoutMonitor 3
set /P "input=" < InputLine.txt
del InputLine.txt
if /I "%input%" equ "go" (
echo You did it^^!
) else (
echo you failed...
)
goto :EOF
:TimeoutMonitor
rem Get the PID of pipe's left side
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq cmd.exe" /FO TABLE /NH > tasklist.txt
for /F "tokens=2" %%a in (tasklist.txt) do (
set "leftSidePipePID=!lastButOnePID!"
set "lastButOnePID=%%a"
)
del tasklist.txt
rem Wait for the input line, or until the number of seconds passed
for /L %%i in (1,1,%2) do (
ping -n 2 localhost > NUL
if exist InputLine.txt exit /B
)
rem Timed out: kill the SET /P process and create a standard input line
taskkill /PID %leftSidePipePID% /F > NUL
echo/
echo Timed Out> InputLine.txt
exit /B