Question

I’m writing a Windows batch script. By default, the pause command will pause the script and display the text "Press any key to continue…".

How do I modify this text to display my own text to the user?

Answer 1

You could hide the text from the pause command by using this:

pause >nul

Then you could echo your own message to tell the user it has paused:

echo The batch file has paused

So the full script might look like this:

@echo off
echo Hello World!
echo The batch file has paused
pause >nul