Hi there.

I WANT TO DELAY A BATCH FILE UNTIL IT HAS FOUND A PARTICULAR FILE FROM A DIRECTORY AND KEEP PROCESSING AFTER IT FINDS IT.

THANK YOU

In general, a batch executes one line at a time. So it will "delay" while it's finding the file.

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

sorry, i forgot to mention:

Suppose i am compiling a java file and a batch file is associated with the java file and they both execute simultaneously. so, the funtion of my batch file is to delete all .cls files created by the java compiler. By this time my batch programme waits until it finds .cls file. but if i press any key on mybatch_file before the java compiler completes comiling, the batch programme will exit, since it didn't find any .cls file.

This could be a way..
If no cls files are found, the script will wait for about 3 sec's and check again. If found, del and exit.

Although, this means that if there's only one cls file, it will exit after deleting it, thus not removing perhaps other cls files..

@echo off
:start
if exist *.cls (del *.cls & exit) else ping localhost -n 3 >nul & goto start