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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.

echo You have 3 seconds to type 'go'
(??if not typed in 3 seconds goto fail??)
set /p input=
if %input%==go goto win
goto fail

Is it possible to command the program to set a 3 second timer before the 'set /p'? Without mixing it with another language like C# etc?

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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

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