Use commands conditionally

[Rileyh]

I have a "for" string and I need to be able to run "pause >nul" if a find is successful. But when I use this code:

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for /f "tokens=1-2*" %%a in ('findstr /b /i "halt" "!$file!"') do (
  pause >nul)

All it does is pause, even when there is no string "halt" in the file "!$file!"
NOTE- Delayed expansion is on, but I only copied the part with an issue.

How can I get it to pause conditionally?

Regards,
Rileyh

[orange_batch]

? That is strange. Maybe your problem is elsewhere in the script, or maybe you overlooked something in your text file.

Try moving the right parenthesis ) from pause >nul to the next line. Syntax sometimes acts differently than on the command line.

Obviously you're breaking the line into tokens for some reason, but if you're only looking to pause if halt is found you could write:

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findstr /b /i "halt" "!$file!"&&pause >nul